Surgeon General choice will put primary care at the forefront

(Wall Street Journal) UPDATED 2009-07-15

Dr. Regina Benjamin, President Obama's choice for Surgeon General, puts the face of primary care at the forefront of the Obama administration's healthcare reform efforts, experts say. Benjamin, who is a primary care physician, has been part of a group studying healthcare disparities at the National Institutes of Health. She is expected to be a proponent of delivering more health care and medicine to the poor, minorities, and rural areas. Dr. Benjamin has lost family members to AIDS, smoking-related cancer, and diabetes, and she says these deaths have committed her to improving primary care medicine for the treatment preventable diseases. The Obama administration's reform efforts are partly based on a push to re-orient the U.S. healthcare system toward prevention and primary care, experts say. Read full story >

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