OK, I admit I know only the little that the WaPo article has printed, but from that little bit, Dr. Regina Benjamin seems like a good pick for Surgeon General.  She built her non-profit Alabama clinic, rebuilt it after Katrina, and rebuilt it again after it was destroyed by fire.  She could have quit and gone to make more money with a for-profit practice.  (And she won’t make a whole lot as our Surgeon General, either.)

I expect her to advocate the “public option” or a single-payer system.  Any 0bama appointee will, so that cannot be counted against her.  But 0bama has found a doctor whose overriding concern is her patients, and who simply will not be deterred.  That is rare indeed.