Beyond health care, Surgeon General Sanjay Gupta would be the face of prevention and public for the United States government. I haven't spent a lot of time digging through his columns and commentaries, but via the magic e-mail box, I think we can safely say he's bad on pot and good on corn. Also, this wasn't the original point of the post, but the title reminds me: Surgeon general is the sort of office that could really benefit from a blog. Particularly if, as seems likely, the surgeon general is being considered as more of a public health educator than administrator.