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<p align="center"><span style="font-size: 8pt"><strong>Top doc:</strong> Sanjay Gupta. pic/apu00a0</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>US President-elect Barack Obama has approached CNN's chief medical correspondent, Indian-American Sanjay Gupta, to be the country's next surgeon general. <br /><br />CNN said it has kept Gupta from reporting on health care policy and other matters involving the incoming Obama administration since learning he was under consideration for the post.<br /><br />Two Democrats with knowledge of the discussions over the surgeon general spot said Gupta was under consideration, but cautioned there was not yet a final decision on who would fill the post. Obama's transition office did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<br /><br />Gupta hosts Houseu00a0 Call on CNN, contributes reports to CBS News, and writes a column for Time magazine. He is a neurosurgeon and is on the faculty at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. During the Clinton administration, he was a White House fellow and special adviser to then-first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.<br /><br />The surgeon general typically isn't heavily involved in shaping an administration's policy, but it can be a very effective bully pulpit. Past surgeons general have proved instrumental in battling tobacco and AIDS.

US President-elect Barack Obama has approached CNN's chief medical correspondent, Indian-American Sanjay Gupta, to be the country's next surgeon general. 

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