The United States Surgeon General of the Public Health Service is a presidentially appointed position in the government of the United States.
The Surgeon General is the head of the 6,000-member Commissioned Corps[?] of the United States Public Health Service, a troop of emergency health professionals who are on call 24 hours a day, and can be dispatched by the Surgeon General in the event of a public health emergency.
The Surgeon General also has many informal duties, such as educating the American public about health issues, and advocating healthy lifestyle choices.
The office also periodically issues health warnings. Perhaps the best known example of this is the "Surgeon General's Warning" labels that can be found on all packages of American cigarettes.
Past American Surgeon Generals have often been characterized by their outspoken personalities and often controversial proposals on how to reform the US health system. Because the office isn't a paticularly powerful one, and has little direct impact on policy-making, Surgeon Generals are often vocal advocates of unconventional, unusual, or even unpopular health policies. General C. Everett Koop and Joycelyn Elders were two paticularly colorful former Surgeons General who were well-known for their controversial ideas.
The Office of the Surgeon General was an independent government agency until 1953 at which point it was intergrated into the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and later into the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
External Links:
Official website of the US Surgeon General (http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/sgoffice.htm)
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