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Nominee for US top doc grilled on political pressure

James Holsinger is up for the post of US surgeon general.

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Wadman, M. Nominee for US top doc grilled on political pressure. Nat Med 13, 892 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0807-892

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