Regina Benjamin and American Health Care
13th July 2009
Regina Benjamin is a family doctor who runs a rural clinic that treats many poor patients in the town of Bayou La Batre, Alabama. She has an MBA and she was the first black woman to be elected to the AMA’s board of trustees.
Look at the picture and tell me true: Would you have known that Obama’s pick for Surgeon General was a “black woman” unless somebody told you?
July 15th, 2009 at 14:51
I thought she might be Hispanic, or perhaps I should say “Latina.” However, it seems the politically-correct way to look at this appointment is that she is unfit because she is — no, not a woman — no, not black or Hispanic — too fat. From the article’s comments we are to believe she sets back the course of American medicine a hundred years just by her appearance.