Surgeon General looks just a tad bit better than Gupta:

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A Doctor From the Bayou
By GARDINER HARRIS
Published: July 13, 2009

WASHINGTON — There had been two television medical reporters, a Chicago neurologist, an Atlanta epidemiologist and a New York academic on President Obama’s list, but on Monday he instead chose a family doctor from a battered town on Alabama’s Gulf Coast to be the next surgeon general.

In a Rose Garden ceremony, Dr. Regina M. Benjamin twice had to tell Mr. Obama how to pronounce the name of the town in which she worked. It is spelled Bayou La Batre, but locals run all three words together and say, Baylabatray. On his third try, the president still did not get it right, but Dr. Benjamin — quiet and unassuming, according to all reports — did not correct him.

In 2002, she became the president of the Alabama Medical Association, the first African-American woman to be president of a state medical society in the United States. In September, she was one of 25 recipients of the $500,000 “genius awards,” awarded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation...snip




http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/health/policy/14surgeon.html?_r=1&ref=us