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1916–2013 United States

Charles Everett Koop M.D. (October 14, 1916 – February 25, 2013) was an American physician. He served as the Surgeon General of the United States from 1982 to 1989, under Ronald Reagan's presidency.

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I might be better able to help parents of dying children, but for quite a while I felt less able, too emotionally involved. And from that time on, I could rarely discuss the death of a child without tears welling up into my eyes.

Koop: The Memoirs of America's Family Doctor (1993)

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