Of course, my own doctor looks like she's sixteen

[urbpan]

I'm ready for a Surgeon General who is Indian-American. I'm not ready for a Surgeon General who is MY AGE.

Surgeon Generals are supposed to look like this:



Keep in mind this image was stolen from an ad featuring Dr. Koop's endorsement of the "I've fallen and I can't get up" button.

On the other hand, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, seen here just before undoing his jeans in his Playgirl Magazine pictorial (for all I know), is actually more than two months YOUNGER than me. Dr. Gupta is expected to be tapped by President Obama (I'm tired of hearing "elect" shoved in between those two words) for the Surgeon General post.

Comments

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

holy fuck it's kumar.

[vampyrusgirl.livejournal.com]

HAHAHA!!! Awesome observation!

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

does that make me racist?

[vampyrusgirl.livejournal.com]

Only if we wanting to be a gay man to be able to enjoy watching political coverage is homo...well, not phobic, but you know what I mean... ;)

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

homoamused? lol.

[vampyrusgirl.livejournal.com]

Or homoenvious? :)

[vampyrusgirl.livejournal.com]

Ok, is this going to be the young, hot men administration, or what? Have you seen the photo of Obama with no shirt on? I mean, damn...what I wouldn't give to be a gay man for the next four years. Political news coverage will be eye candy!!!

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

I hear Obama's trying to assemble the Hottest Administration Evar. If this indeed is our incoming president's goal, then he has my full support.

[txtriffidranch.livejournal.com]

Next stop, NASA. I'd work for the Administration for free just for eight years of NASA press conferences that didn't lead to Jon Stewart pointing out the structural deformities of the spokespeople. (I want to emphasize that I don't want NASA to be run by Beautiful People. I just also want a NASA that doesn't trot out spokespeople who look like they wouldn't wear a Star Trek uniform in public because the show was too mainstream for them.)

[uneko.livejournal.com]

Man, I hear I thought I was going to be all witty by coming it with some statement about the Sexy Government, but I've been beaten to it!

Twice! :)

[epiclevelregina.livejournal.com]

just before undoing his jeans in his Playgirl Magazine pictorial (for all I know)

Don't you kid about something like that!

*stares*

Oh God DAMN.

[txtriffidranch.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm all for it. I figure that if he's qualified, a good dose of sex appeal might mean that people pay attention to Surgeon General medical announcements. Shallow, yes, but that's only because I've been praying for a similar appointment to replace Michael "My Mom Thinks I'm Cool" Griffin over at NASA.

[ellettra.livejournal.com]

wow. no kidding on the Dr. Hottie business.

[slamonella.livejournal.com]

That's not right. We need a Surgeon General who is old enough to think a course of leeches is still a good way to treat "hysteria".

[sin-agua.livejournal.com]

Well my my MY...he IS hot, isn't he? I'd like to fall down with him and not be able to get up for awhile...

[vampyrusgirl.livejournal.com]

WORD...


I would throw that medic alert alarm straight out the window!

[g-weir.livejournal.com]

I think that photo was taken from the inside cover of his 1993 slow jam CD.

[bdot.livejournal.com]

for the first time, my new doctor is younger than i am! it made me feel old....

[jilder.livejournal.com]

My word, what a good looking chap. What a clever way to get young women and gay men involved in the preservation of public health.

[ms-cantrell.livejournal.com]

wasn't he the cnn medical correspondent? i'm pretty sure i don't want the cnn medical correspondent to be the surgeon general... do i?

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

he is. but he's also a neurosurgeon.

[kryptyd.livejournal.com]

I felt I had passed a certain landmark in my life when guys and girls younger than me started coming into the office looking for lawyer jobs.

[mperrotti76.livejournal.com]

I hate Sanjay Gupta. The only person I hate more is Ali Velshi.

[deathling.livejournal.com]

!!!

[by-steph.livejournal.com]

It's a better choice than Dr. Phil.

[bellelvsbeast.livejournal.com]

OOOH he's cute!!! ;)
HEHEHEHEHEHE

[weofodthignen]

LOL

Personally I ignore Surgeons General. They are apparently paid to be woefully slow in recognizing obvious problems like smoking and HIV and to defend for-profit multi-layer medicine at all costs.

But get used to it. As your topic line says, you've reached the age where professionals are going to start to be babies who speak with squeaky voices and have to have it explained to them in small words that you don't do X and Y but you do do A and B and sometimes what A and B are. You're more than 10 years younger than me, mwahahaha. It'll be a while before one of your friends says "Welcome to old age" to you. I hope.

M