TY - JOUR T1 - Should every US state have its own surgeon general? California latest state to have top doc JF - The Nation's Health JO - Nations Health SP - 1 LP - 8 VL - 49 IS - 3 AU - Kim Krisberg Y1 - 2019/05/01 UR - http://www.thenationshealth.org/content/49/3/1.1.abstract N2 - In January, Californians got their very first state surgeon general, joining only a handful of states to ever have one. While the U.S. surgeon general position is a tradition going back more than a century, the title of state-level surgeon general goes back only about 20 years to Pennsylvania, which established the position of “physician general” in 1996. ER -