Regina Benjamin We know, we know, you were still kinda hoping for Sanjay Gupta, but he bowed out of the running months ago. So instead, President Obama has invited Alabama physician Regina Benjamin to move to Washington and become the new Surgeon General. Benjamin may not have her own TV show, but she was the first black woman to head the State of Alabama Medical Association, and she served as associate dean for rural…

Cue the Dr. McDreamy jokes, ladies. The Washington Post is reporting that the neurosurgeon who became a household name as CNN’s chief health correspondent plans to accept the position of Surgeon General in soon-to-be-President Obama’s administration. More than a pretty face on the tube, Dr. Sanjay Gupta is a former White House fellow, where he acted as a special advisor for health policy to then First Lady Hillary Clinton. The stellar notations on his resume…

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Free flu shots will be administered at the Foggy Bottom metrorail station on Thursday. WTOP Radio and George Washington University Medical Center are sponsoring the distribution of the free shots. We’re assuming that the flu shots will be administered on street level next to the escalators, which will have them competing against Express distributor hawks for customers. So watch out for public health, public transit gridlock on 23rd Street. If you’re interested in a free…