Bostonian physician nominated US chief doctor

(The Boston Globe, November 15, 2013)

Dr. Vivek Hallegere Murthy, a 36-year-old attending physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and an instructor at Harvard Medical School, will be nominated by President Obama to become the nation’s 19th surgeon general. If approved by the US Senate, Murthy will assume the role of America’s chief doctor. In 2009, Murthy founded Doctors for America, which is composed of 16,000 doctors and medical students across the country and states that its mission is to improve the quality of health and health care. “For years, really, on his own time, he has dedicated himself to health insurance, to health coverage for people who are needy, and been a tireless advocate for the president’s Affordable Care Act,” said one of Murphy's peers.