Surgeon General Was Warned by His Mom to Avoid Politics, but He Jumped Into the Fray

MedPage Today August 12, 2024
Associated Press

— An interview with the “Nation’s Doctor,” Vivek Murthy, MD, MBA

The dated gold and silver trophies packed in the china cabinet of the childhood home of Vivek Murthy, MD, MBA, still boast the surgeon general’s many talents, from dance performances to math competitions.

Growing up in a Florida suburb, it seemed to his family that Murthy could succeed at just about anything.

But when a middle school world history teacher suggested he might one day make a good secretary of state, his mom staged an intervention.

“She got really worried,” Murthy said in an exclusive interview with the Associated Press last month, while his mom giggled at his retelling of the story. “She called my dad. She said, ‘You...

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