sanjay gupta offered surgeon general job

Rumor has it, President-elect Barack Obama has offerend the job of surgeon general to Dr. Sanjay Gupta, neurosurgeon and medical correspondent for CNN and CBS News: Obama Wants Journalist Gupta for Surgeon General. More here: Gupta approached about surgeon general post.

He's definitely a high-profile choice, considering that he's made his name both as a journalist and a physician. He would play an important, expanded role in providing health police advice to Obama's White House. If this indeed goes through, I know more than a few folks who will be happy about it, included one person who calls Gupta her "CNN boyfriend"... whatever that means.