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Article: Koop dispenses bitter pills // Surgeon general confounds critics
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 7, 1987
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WASHINGTON He came to the nation's capital in 1981 as the man
the Reagan administration planned to eventually make surgeon general
of the United States - an evangelical Christian and devoted
conservative who brought with him a reputation as a superb pediatric
surgeon, a vitriolic anti-abortionist and an unbending moralist.
Dr. C. Everett Koop was instantly the darling of conservatives
and anathema to liberals, some of whom took to calling him "Dr.
Kook." With his stern visage, graying beard and piercing eyes,
detractors snickered and compared him to Captain Ahab or some ranting
Old Testament prophet.
Today, Koop finds himself in a perplexing position - the delight
of the left and the ...