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Rejected Surgeon General Nominees

CNN's Sanjay Gupta is in as surgeon general. But why stop there? The Daily Beast offers 12 alternate TV docs in case this one falls through. Up next, Jeffrey Toobin at Justice?

Published Jan. 6 2009 1:55PM EST

galleries/2009/01/06/rejected-surgeon-general-nominees/doctors---dr-phil_fmgidj — Joe Cavaretta/AP

galleries/2009/01/06/rejected-surgeon-general-nominees/doctors---dr-phil_qyqtmh — Won’t accept pay cut.
Joe Cavaretta/AP

galleries/2009/01/06/rejected-surgeon-general-nominees/doctors---house_huxg99 — Drug problem.
©20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection

galleries/2009/01/06/rejected-surgeon-general-nominees/doctors---dr-doug-ross_d3p1x1 — Retired.
NBC/Everett

galleries/2009/01/06/rejected-surgeon-general-nominees/doctors---dr-j_ehr40c — May not be a doctor.
Lisa Blumenfeld/Getty

galleries/2009/01/06/rejected-surgeon-general-nominees/doctors---dr-derek-shepherd_g77om9 — Sex scandals.
©ABC/Courtesy Everett Collection

galleries/2009/01/06/rejected-surgeon-general-nominees/doctors---dr-hibberd_i93erk — Two dimensional.
20th Century Fox

galleries/2009/01/06/rejected-surgeon-general-nominees/doctors---dr-quinn_kbhlwu — Primitive medical knowledge.
Everett

galleries/2009/01/06/rejected-surgeon-general-nominees/doctors---dr-dre_xi2u0c — Too violent.
Gary Hershorn/Reuters

galleries/2009/01/06/rejected-surgeon-general-nominees/doctors---el-doctorow_x4ivid — Wanted to rewrite cigarette warning.
Horst Tappe/Hulton Archive/Getty

galleries/2009/01/06/rejected-surgeon-general-nominees/doctors---dr-ruth_hpsqry — Rejected by Christian Right.
Giacinta Pace/NBC NewsWire/AP

galleries/2009/01/06/rejected-surgeon-general-nominees/doctors---doc-brown_kk96hl — Last seen in 1885. And 1985.
Universal Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection

galleries/2009/01/06/rejected-surgeon-general-nominees/doctors---doc_ijadxs — Being investigated for scandal involving six other men and (possibly) abducted woman.
Everett

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