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Army surgeon-general Lt. Gen. Eric Schoomaker said that although an MRI is a helpful tool in battlefield care, it is not essential for diagnosis.

Imaging devices late to battlefield 2011

The recently retired surgeon-general of the British armed forces, Lt Gen Louis Lillywhite, has also warned of the dangers of what he calls the blurring between "neutral humanitarian aid" directed solely at the relief of suffering and '"development aid" intended to give legitimacy to a government.

Military priorities are distorting aid budgets, says Oxfam 2011

By mid-December, Gen. Yaftali, the Afghan army's surgeon-general, was moved out of his job without explanation—after the coalition's commander at the time, Gen. David Petraeus, personally raised the problems at the hospital during a meeting with President Karzai, people familiar with the matter said.

At Afghan Military Hospital, Graft and Deadly Neglect Maria Abi-Habib 2011

Appeals to authority ("well, the Bible/president/mayor, surgeon-general says..."), the temporal fallacy (something is good or bad because it's old or new), ad hominem appeals (something it true or false because of who said it)...a whole raft of informal fallacies run over us every day, not to mention the formal ones (the undistributed middle, for instance...)

Why ban trolls? e_moon60 2009

He's had babies right and left, they wanted him to be surgeon-general, he writes a book, he turns 40, he writes another book, now you're jumping in the Hudson River.

CNN Transcript Dec 8, 2009 2009

While it would be unconventional to tap a journalist for a high-profile administration position, the surgeon-general post is largely about informing the nation on public health.

CNN's Gupta Considered For Surgeon General Post 2009

The surgeon-general post has been vacant since 2006.

CNN's Gupta Considered For Surgeon General Post 2009

Not only that, they struck on the city's busiest thoroughfares and managed to achieve their objective of targeting a senior officer of the Pakistan Army -- a lieutenant-general who at the time of his death was the military's surgeon-general.

Rulers Use Terrorism For Politics 2008

The message from Dole: he had scheduled a quick-strike vote against Dr. Henry Foster's surgeon-general nomination.

The Gop's Private War 2008

OpEdNews - Quicklink: US army FIRES surgeon-general in scandal

OpEdNews - Quicklink: US army FIRES surgeon-general in scandal 2007