The surgeon general of the United States is the operational head of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and thus a leading spokesperson on matters of public health in the federa
The landmark 1964 Surgeon General's report on Smoking and Health.
John M. Woodworth
Surgeon General John B. Hamilton
Walter Wyman, ca. 1898
C. Everett Koop
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Charles Everett Koop was an American pediatric surgeon and public health administrator who served as the 13th surgeon general of the United States under President Ronald Reagan from 1982 to 1989. Acco
Surgeon General of the United States
…as not an addiction. The committee itself consisted largely of physicians who themselves smoked. This report went uncorrected for 24 years. In 1986, C. Everett Koop's report on AIDS called for some form of AIDS education in the early grades of elementary school, and gave full support for using condoms for disease…
Official portrait, 1980s
Koop with his wife, Betty, Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, and Secretary of Health and Human Services Richard Schweiker.
Koop in U.S. Public Health Service uniform