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Medical Students for Dr. Vivek Murthy as our Nation's Next Surgeon General

Medical Students for Dr. Vivek Murthy as our Nation's Next Surgeon General

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Started by Jake Wayman 12 years, 4 months ago
As doctors and future doctors for the Commonwealth of Virginia and the United States of America, we are united in supporting Dr. Vivek Murthy as our nation's next Surgeon General. Dr. Murthy is a highly-qualified physician, innovative entrepreneur, and brilliant visionary who has tremendous promise to make a positive impact on the health of all Americans. He has an intimate understanding of grassroots, community-driven movements and will skillfully catalyze a 21st century approach to guiding better health outcomes in our local neighborhoods. Recent distracting dialogue surrounding the topic of guns have obstructed meaningful progress towards realizing his necessary confirmation. Dr. Murthy is being attacked for mainstream views that are held by medical consensus as the New England Journal of Medicine, New York Times, Washington Post, and numerous other outlets have jumped to his defense with loud displays of support. He has also drawn the endorsements of leading national organizations including the American Heart Association, American Cancer Society, American Diabetes Association,along with many others. During his Senate Committee testimony in February 2014, Dr. Murthy emphasized on the record that his focus would be dedicated towards combating childhood obesity. We believe Dr. Murthy's leadership is absolutely pressing in tackling the issue of childhood obesity right away, and we refuse to standby as non-medical special interests seek to derail his nomination. We urge Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine to stand by Dr. Murthy's nomination for Surgeon General of the United States.


Learn more at: http://www.standwithvivek.com/


Please note that we have aligned our U.S. medical school petition with efforts by Stand With Vivek campaign (http://www.standwithvivek.com/). This campaign may reach out to all sign ups to organize future movement on this important issue.

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Reached 100 supporters

April 1, 2014

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Elena Mills
12 years ago Featured

He has the support of all the major health orgs for a reason. Lets get someone in there who actually knows medicine.

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Sarah Banerjee
12 years ago Featured

Dr. Murthy is exactly who we need right now. Tired of politics getting in the way of real public health experts.

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Brian Pitts
12 years ago Featured

Vivek Murthy is a highly qualified candidate. His stance on firearm safety falls is consistent with his role as the leader of public health. Firearm safety is a public health topic, regardless of how you think it should be regulated. I expect my head public health official to address firearm safety from a scientific standpoint, rather than pretend it is not a health issue.

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James Doyle
12 years ago Featured

Qualified and ready to work. Get him confirmed already.

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Priyam Vyas
12 years ago Featured

Politics should not be involved in confirming a consensus-pick for the top qualified physician to lead our nation

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James Engel
12 years ago Featured

Braveen Ragunanthan personally vouched for this man, and that is more than enough for me.

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Anonymous
12 years ago

:)

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Caitlin Francoisse
12 years ago

More than qualified! We support Dr Murthy

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