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Known for
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Serving two terms as surgeon general of the United States
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Issuing an indictment against smoking, and advocating sex education to control the AIDS epidemic
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Career
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1937 Graduated from Dartmouth College
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1941 Received his M.D. from Cornell University
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1947 Received a doctorate of science degree in medicine from the University of Pennsylvania
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1948-1981 Served as surgeon-in-chief at Children's Hospital in Philadelphia
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1959-1985 Taught pediatric surgery at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
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1981-1989 Served two terms as surgeon general of the United States
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1993- Taught at Dartmouth College Medical School
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Did You Know
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Koop observed many surgeries before he entered medical school, and was allowed to participate in a leg amputation when he was 19 years old.
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Koop stepped down as surgeon general four months before his term was scheduled to end, after his progressive sex-education and anti-smoking campaigns lost him the support of former conservative allies.
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Objective evaluations of available evidence, rather than political considerations, dictated Koop's stance on smoking and AIDS.
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