{"id":5454,"date":"2009-01-09T10:54:35","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T17:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=5454"},"modified":"2009-01-09T10:57:29","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T17:57:29","slug":"surgeon-general-sanjay-gupta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/01\/09\/surgeon-general-sanjay-gupta\/","title":{"rendered":"Surgeon General Sanjay Gupta?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest010909\/2009_01_09_young.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest010909\/2009_01_09_uprising.mp3\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/a.abcnews.com\/images\/Health\/rt_obama_gupta_090106_mn.jpg\" alt=\"sanjay gupta\" \/>President-elect Barack Obama is reported to have picked neurosurgeon and CNN Medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta for his first choice for the nation\u2019s Surgeon General. In response, Congressman John Conyers has authored a letter urging his fellow colleagues on the hill to oppose Gupta\u2019s confirmation. If he does become the next US Surgeon General, Gupta would oversee 6,000 physician members of the U.S. Public Health Service. The position in question is chiefly responsible for educating and promoting public health objectives. Conyers\u2019 letter joins Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman in publicly declaring Gupta to be unfit for the job. CNN\u2019s TV doctor has indeed faced criticism over the years in medical journals and other publications for being entangled with major pharmaceutical companies. In one example, Pfizer was an admitted sponsor of the \u201cPaging Dr. Gupta,\u201d television program. Gupta was also notably involved in a highly publicized debate over Michael Moore\u2019s documentary \u201cSiCKO\u201d on CNN accusing the filmmaker of \u201cfudging the facts,\u201d on the U.S. health care system. However, as Fairness &#038; Accuracy in Reporting noted, it\u2019s was Gupta, not Moore, who had the faulty fact checks. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Quentin Young, National Coordinator with the Physicians for a National Health Program<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program President-elect Barack Obama is reported to have picked neurosurgeon and CNN Medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta for his first choice for the nation\u2019s Surgeon General. In response, Congressman John Conyers has authored a letter urging his fellow colleagues on the hill to oppose Gupta\u2019s confirmation. If he does become the next [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}