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?
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Won’t accept pay cut.
Joe Cavaretta/AP
Drug problem.
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Retired.
NBC/Everett
May not be a doctor.
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Sex scandals.
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Two dimensional.
20th Century Fox
Primitive medical knowledge.
Everett
Too violent.
Gary Hershorn/Reuters
Wanted to rewrite cigarette warning.
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Rejected by Christian Right.
Giacinta Pace/NBC NewsWire/AP
Last seen in 1885. And 1985.
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Being investigated for scandal involving six other men and (possibly) abducted woman.
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