Nearly a year after President Obama chose a Brookline doctor to be the next surgeon general, the 37-year-old nominee is still waiting to be confirmed by the Senate, even as the administration seeks public health leadership amid the Ebola scare. Vivkek Murthy, instructor in medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is the surgeon general nominee.
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