https://nitter.net/Surgeon_General/status/1573017992304201729?t=34IM87qu9Aa2gopLzQuL_w&s=19

    • TornadoThompson [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      He leads the surgeons into battle whenever there is a war. In the past the Surgeon General would wear white scrubs and ride a horse to lead the charge, but nowadays the role is more ceremonial and administrative than combat-orientated. Some traditions still hold true to this day - in their final year all medical students training to be surgeons must undertake an intensive course in sword fighting and pledge their life to that of the Surgeon General.

    • Shoegazer [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      A westoid top public health official with a militarized aesthetic. Dude has never served in the military lol

      • RNAi [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        What.

        What level of fascism are you on?

        Now I'm remembering a meme about senior garbage collectors having a pic taken as generals or something

      • Judge_Juche [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        NOAA (the weather forecasting agency) also has a uniformed, quasi-military branch lead by a bunch of rear-admirals who are actually university professors appointed to the position. Although that makes marginally more sense since they are in charge of a couple ships. The Surgeon-General is just the government spokesman for public health issues.

    • ComradeLove [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      https://www.newsweek.com/remember-time-bill-clinton-fired-his-surgeon-general-encouraging-masturbation-423302

      She was a black woman, so you can imagine the faux outrage.

    • RedDawn [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      He personally writes warnings on every pack of cigarettes about how cigarettes are bad for you.

    • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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      2 years ago

      The medical profession's equivalent of an attorney general.

      Pretty soon we'll have an engineer general too.