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March 2008, Vol 98, No. 3 | American Journal of Public Health 396-399
© 2008 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2007.129114

FACES OF PUBLIC HEALTH

C. Everett Koop: The Nation’s Health Conscience

Donya Currie Arias, MA

Donya Currie Arias is a freelance writer and editorial consultant in Fredericksburg, Va.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Donya Currie Arias, MA, 60 Bayberry Ln, Fredericksburg, VA 22406 (e-mail: dcarias@cox.net).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

MANY PEOPLE RECOGNIZE C. Everett Koop, MD, as US surgeon general extraordinaire, a man who single-handedly led thousands to kick the cigarette habit and saw to it that an AIDS education brochure arrived in every American mailbox at a time when the disease was shrouded in misinformation. Others herald him for saving thousands of young lives as a pioneer of pediatric surgery. And most who work in and for public health recognize the changes Koop brought about and is still fighting for.

"I remember so many things that this wonderful man did," Sen Orrin Hatch (R, Utah) said at Koop’s . . . [Full Text]






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