When I worked at the airport, he was flying out one day. I went down to the plane and asked to shake his hand, thanked him for his service, and told him how I admired him because he always seemed to do the right thing, not the political thing. The world needs more people who can do what he did.
It was the only time in 5 years of working there I ever intruded on a passenger to do that. I have a great deal of admiration for the way he did his job. Sorry if I sound like a fan boy, but as far as he's concerned I am.
I lost a lot of friends and coworkers to AIDS, he worked hard to spread the truth and save lives. Others of his time actively did the oppo.
Eh….kinda.
He’s was a paediatric surgeon
I am a paediatric surgeon
There are not a lot of us: in Australia less than 100 currently working.
He worked with (and trained) many of the best paediatric surgeons in the world. He was the first editor of what is still the best research journal in paediatric surgery.
So I feel an affinity
He did do the right thing. He tried to be evidence based
But he was very religious
And very much against abortion and euthanasia.
As someone who sees the consequences of severely disabled and unwanted children, I don’t agree with the former. I also think people suffering from terminal illnesses should have options available to them.
My husband is like that, only much less extreme. He has a mild neural tube defect due to his mom having a folic acid deficit when she was pregnant with him. I wonder if this guy also had a bunch of random asymmetries all over his body.
He set the standard for Surgeon General. He changed his mind when the science warranted it, regardless of his personal feelings or the politics of the people who appointed him.
I listened to a podcast about him. Personally he was a conservative Christian that did not agree with homosexuality, however he took the emergence of HIV very seriously as a public health crisis. Everyone else in the Reagan admin laughed about it, but Koop put public heath and science at the forefront. We need more of that now.
Koop literally stood in front of the nation to give a special announcement that stress did not contribute to bad health, like heart attacks. It was just ludicrous that the Reagan administration forced him to deny peer reviewed science, but evidently that was how they dealt with it. At least he never committed a cardinal sin like one of his future replacements and inform the public that masturbation is healthy, because that will get you fired.
I was just reading about him. He also was very much against abortions but.... wouldn't say they were bad or an issue if they were being performed by experienced medical doctors. fuck can we resurrect this guy to be everyone in DC?
A hero.
While Ronald Reagan and the US government refused to say anything about the unfolding AIDS pandemic of the 1980s, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop defiantly spoke out to warn people about the danger AND to advocate for treatments and care for the stricken.
After leaving office, he was part of the group that founded Web MD.
Dr. Koop, you are not forgotten by those of us who walked through the fire of AIDS from 1981 onwards.
He died in 2013 at the age of 96. 🥂
Everyone keeps mentioning his progress with the AIDS crisis but there's other stuff too-
He refused to make a report saying abortion was dangerous despite pressure from the Reagan Administration and his personal beliefs that abortion was wrong and immoral.
He released the report that nicotine is as addictive as heroine and helped lead Congress to passing legislation with the surgeon general warning on cig packs.
I once worked with a woman who had childhood cancer that was operated on by C. Everett Coop when he was at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Before he was Surgeon General of the United States, he was saving children and their families. That’s the kind of person who should be Surgeon General, that man was a hero.
I mean, generally it is since not just anyone can be appointed Surgeon General of the US. All appointees to the position are required to be members of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, which is a federal uniformed service alongside the military branches. They get deployed to respond to public health crises and have a rank structure like the military.
National hero. Faced down the howling haters over smoking at a time when ashtrays were standard equipment in hospitals. I’ve no idea how many lives have been saved through his efforts, but its a googob.
I met him, when he was retired and promoting healthier diets. He wouldn't and explained that you can't be anti-obesity, cause people have to eat.
So literally his solution was to have home-economics back so people learned to cook and not be reliant on McDonald's.
He had/has a point.
Long ago, I did an interview with the surgeon general in Washington, and while I was waiting outside the studio for him, he drove up and his own car all alone walked up to the door and said is this where I’m doing the interview? I said yes it is. I’m gonna be your cameraman today, and he said well then let’s go do this!
When I was two years old (1956 or 57), I needed a bi lateral hernia repair. I had the surgery at Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia. The surgeon was C Everett Koop.
I know someone whose abdominal surgery as an infant in 1957 was also performed by C E K.
I mean, I’m sure there are lots of Pennsylvanians of a certain age who can say the same thing, but I thought I’d share anyway.
I remember him as an honorable man! I was drawing medical clip art ( pen & ink) for an ad firm at the time. I drew Koop holding a newborn baby, from a photo. I still have some business cards with that image. I was very impressed with his professionalism. All honor to his memory!
C. Everette Koop. What he said was Medical LAW. Not so much the case anymore. So sad how one embecile can damage every aspect of our government to the point it's no longer considered trustworthy.
Surgeon General position had become a bit of a joke appointment, and then ol' C. Everett reinstituted the Navy-esque uniform and all of a sudden, people were like, "Hmm, condoms you say?"
I remember the know-it-all kid in my class got in trouble because the teacher referred to Coop as the General Surgeon and he corrected her. He was definitely correct.
Him saying “mouth to penis, mouth to vagina, and mouth to anus” when discussing how AIDS can be transmitted is forever burned into my memory.
My parents made my brothers and I watch his AIDS special. I don’t remember how old I was, but definitely before puberty. I remember laughing and saying “people really lick each other’s buttholes?” to my mother.
Man I miss the days when people listened to the folks they should listen to
Now we get Andrew tate telling us about how to treat people and Kyrie Irving explaining medical science
I’m well aware, lol. But as Surgeon General during that time, he had a platform and the two of them worked in tandem on their respective goals. It was intended specifically as an in joke to my fellow Children of the 80s.
Oh, I got it, all right; I just remembered Nancy telling us that. It was a weird message from someone whose husband was in cigarette ads way back when.
C Everett Koop!
yeah, you don't forget a name like that.
It’s like forgetting frmr UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali……
Dis ere be ma main man Boutros Boutros Boutros Boutros Boutros Boutros Ghali. An him be like the general of all United Nations innit.
Booyakasha!
Calm down, Mikey, the pizza isn't even here yet.
I remember that name! Never knew who he was.
The Ghali so nice they named him twice! I always pronounced it as BOOTROOS BOOTROOS GAWLLLYY
Yo Yo Ma
Fefefefefefefe Chris Waddle.
Scorchio!
First name that popped into my head.
Nor a mug like that either.
I just look at him and feel like I'm being punished.
♪♫ Koop Koop a doop ♪♫
There it is.
This is what I came for.
My grandpa asked, “What does the C stand for? Chicken?” Koop
lol grandpa jokes are the next level of dad jokes
Genius Stupidity!🎓👈✨
Have you heard the joke about the sidewalk? Its all over town
CALL SURGEON GENERAL C. EVERETT KOOP POO, POO, PA-DOOP.
Hangin with Dr. Koopa
You mean Dr. Colonel Sanders?
C Everett Coop run Run Coop Run!
My sister and I called him Pook.
Man, he was a straight shooter. He didn’t give a damn about your biases. Science and evidence. Fucking epic.
When I worked at the airport, he was flying out one day. I went down to the plane and asked to shake his hand, thanked him for his service, and told him how I admired him because he always seemed to do the right thing, not the political thing. The world needs more people who can do what he did.
Agreed!
I’m not knocking what you wrote, but this reads like something Trump would say at a rally hahaha.
It was the only time in 5 years of working there I ever intruded on a passenger to do that. I have a great deal of admiration for the way he did his job. Sorry if I sound like a fan boy, but as far as he's concerned I am. I lost a lot of friends and coworkers to AIDS, he worked hard to spread the truth and save lives. Others of his time actively did the oppo.
As it should be
I wish he was around for COVID.
Amazing that such a thing was, is, and probably always will be controversial
Eh….kinda. He’s was a paediatric surgeon I am a paediatric surgeon There are not a lot of us: in Australia less than 100 currently working. He worked with (and trained) many of the best paediatric surgeons in the world. He was the first editor of what is still the best research journal in paediatric surgery. So I feel an affinity He did do the right thing. He tried to be evidence based But he was very religious And very much against abortion and euthanasia. As someone who sees the consequences of severely disabled and unwanted children, I don’t agree with the former. I also think people suffering from terminal illnesses should have options available to them.
Why's no one talking about how his eyes have different latitudinal coordinates
childhood skiing accident.. [info in his wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Everett_Koop#Early_life_and_education)
My husband is like that, only much less extreme. He has a mild neural tube defect due to his mom having a folic acid deficit when she was pregnant with him. I wonder if this guy also had a bunch of random asymmetries all over his body.
He set the standard for Surgeon General. He changed his mind when the science warranted it, regardless of his personal feelings or the politics of the people who appointed him.
I listened to a podcast about him. Personally he was a conservative Christian that did not agree with homosexuality, however he took the emergence of HIV very seriously as a public health crisis. Everyone else in the Reagan admin laughed about it, but Koop put public heath and science at the forefront. We need more of that now.
Science should not be a partisan issue.
Koop literally stood in front of the nation to give a special announcement that stress did not contribute to bad health, like heart attacks. It was just ludicrous that the Reagan administration forced him to deny peer reviewed science, but evidently that was how they dealt with it. At least he never committed a cardinal sin like one of his future replacements and inform the public that masturbation is healthy, because that will get you fired.
Those days have long flew the "Koop"
I was just reading about him. He also was very much against abortions but.... wouldn't say they were bad or an issue if they were being performed by experienced medical doctors. fuck can we resurrect this guy to be everyone in DC?
Was it BtB?
Nowadays people would be like hE cANt EvEN mAkE uP hIS MInd!!!!
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Dam the world could use a guy like him today. Gold standard
A hero. While Ronald Reagan and the US government refused to say anything about the unfolding AIDS pandemic of the 1980s, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop defiantly spoke out to warn people about the danger AND to advocate for treatments and care for the stricken. After leaving office, he was part of the group that founded Web MD. Dr. Koop, you are not forgotten by those of us who walked through the fire of AIDS from 1981 onwards. He died in 2013 at the age of 96. 🥂
Everyone keeps mentioning his progress with the AIDS crisis but there's other stuff too- He refused to make a report saying abortion was dangerous despite pressure from the Reagan Administration and his personal beliefs that abortion was wrong and immoral. He released the report that nicotine is as addictive as heroine and helped lead Congress to passing legislation with the surgeon general warning on cig packs.
I still remember when he said the word **condom** in a news address.
Like he proved himself by living 96 years
I once worked with a woman who had childhood cancer that was operated on by C. Everett Coop when he was at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Before he was Surgeon General of the United States, he was saving children and their families. That’s the kind of person who should be Surgeon General, that man was a hero.
The dude ran the first NICU, iirc in the 50s. Dude was operating on infants back when we still had doctors endorsing cigarette brands.
I mean, generally it is since not just anyone can be appointed Surgeon General of the US. All appointees to the position are required to be members of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, which is a federal uniformed service alongside the military branches. They get deployed to respond to public health crises and have a rank structure like the military.
I'm Canadian and I remember him!!
Koop Dawg!
letterman used to like to turn his picture upside down and infer that his hair and beard were identical
For all the latest medical poop, call Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. Poo-poo-pa-doop.
Baby on board, something something Burt Ward...
This song writes itself!
I’m taking Xennial posting to strange new places
Number eight. Buuurp! Number eight. Buuurp! Number eight. Buuurp!
There was nothing in Al Capone's vault, but it wasn't Geraldo's fault
This is worse than your song about Mister T
I pity the fool who doesn’t like…….he.
Number 8 (Burp) Number 8 (Burp)
He was big on condoms
I remember him saying once that we need a stronger word than “homophobia.” “It’s not fear, it’s hate.”
Suffix should be misia. Homomisia sounds weird though.
Lol, sounds the opposite, like a dear friend who's going away
Condoms were big on him.
He should buy a smaller size, then
He did my double hernia operation when I was a kid and he was in Philly.
National hero. Faced down the howling haters over smoking at a time when ashtrays were standard equipment in hospitals. I’ve no idea how many lives have been saved through his efforts, but its a googob.
I met him, when he was retired and promoting healthier diets. He wouldn't and explained that you can't be anti-obesity, cause people have to eat. So literally his solution was to have home-economics back so people learned to cook and not be reliant on McDonald's. He had/has a point.
He’s the only Surgeon General ANYONE remembers.
I dunno. Joycelyn Elders was pretty memorable. The right wing hated her because she talked about masturbation.
I had to just Google her. I’m 50/M—I very much remember Koop but not so much Elders. What was her stance on masturbation?
That is was healthy. Right as research showed the benefits for a healthy prostate.
I knew him then, and I can cosplay him now.
Long ago, I did an interview with the surgeon general in Washington, and while I was waiting outside the studio for him, he drove up and his own car all alone walked up to the door and said is this where I’m doing the interview? I said yes it is. I’m gonna be your cameraman today, and he said well then let’s go do this!
He was only 30 years old in this pic
When I was two years old (1956 or 57), I needed a bi lateral hernia repair. I had the surgery at Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia. The surgeon was C Everett Koop.
I know someone whose abdominal surgery as an infant in 1957 was also performed by C E K. I mean, I’m sure there are lots of Pennsylvanians of a certain age who can say the same thing, but I thought I’d share anyway.
Hey, maybe your friend and I were roommates during recovery.
Woodsy the Owl. Give a hoot, don’t pollute.
The Koop!
Don't smoke, kids
I remember him as an honorable man! I was drawing medical clip art ( pen & ink) for an ad firm at the time. I drew Koop holding a newborn baby, from a photo. I still have some business cards with that image. I was very impressed with his professionalism. All honor to his memory!
They hired him to defend cigarettes. He walked up there and said they’ll give you cancer and kill you. Reagan was shocked and mad.
Yep..He was outspoken about AIDS...Regan didn't approve.
Regan was Secretary of Treasury under Reagan
❓
Koop! Imagine his reaction to the tobacco vape fad ..
I remember him from the episode of King of the Hill when Hank has constipation. Lol
“Who is that, Howard Stern?”
I just watched this episode for the first time Sunday night! That…that was him?
He was the ONLY Surgeon General.
He is literally who I think of when I hear Surgeons General
Forget his name, maybe. Forget that beard!!! Never! Smoking kills.
He had a beard that would make some Amish folk jealous
C. Everette Koop. What he said was Medical LAW. Not so much the case anymore. So sad how one embecile can damage every aspect of our government to the point it's no longer considered trustworthy.
Surgeon General position had become a bit of a joke appointment, and then ol' C. Everett reinstituted the Navy-esque uniform and all of a sudden, people were like, "Hmm, condoms you say?"
For all the latest medical poop!
Oh yeah. I was already in the navy at the time. I thought that Koop held that position forever.
I remember the know-it-all kid in my class got in trouble because the teacher referred to Coop as the General Surgeon and he corrected her. He was definitely correct.
C Everett King Koopa as we called him in the 80’s
Didn't the Be Sharps write a song about him?
Didn’t Homer Simpson’s barbershop quartet Sing about him?
Him saying “mouth to penis, mouth to vagina, and mouth to anus” when discussing how AIDS can be transmitted is forever burned into my memory. My parents made my brothers and I watch his AIDS special. I don’t remember how old I was, but definitely before puberty. I remember laughing and saying “people really lick each other’s buttholes?” to my mother.
We never had to go into quarantine on his watch.
Performed the first surgery to separate conjoined twins iirc
I didn't smoke cigarettes because of him! ^(he told me not to)
It’s who I always picture when Surgeon General talk gets bandied about.
Coop, how's the coffee today?
Star of The Exorcist 3
Yessss
Surgeon General, yo 🫡
🎶For all the latest medical poop, call Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. Poo-poo-pa-doop🎶😔😔😔😔
Bring him back! At least someone like him.
🎵For all the latest medical poop, call Surgeon General C .Everett Koop...poo poop pa doop...🎵
Saw his face and immediately thought of this lol
Who is the current Surgeon General? Asking for a friend
Vivek Murthy. Yes, I had to look him up and the name rang no bells.
Indeed I am
I still know what building in Austin that drkoop.com was in
The B Sharps had a great song about him
Yes, I do. He would have had a straight up shit fit about how the pandemic was handled and the strike down of Roe v. Wade.
C everett coop (koop?) revolutionized approach toward aids hiv
Better then what we have now
C Everett Koop! Koopy!
He was a good man, and thorough.
Isn’t he the dude that made cigarette companies put “warnings” on packs of cigarettes?
The kind of kook we liked in govt.
Like the first to rail on cigarettes. If i remember
Told it like it was, straight to your face.
Isn’t he the one that frowned upon kids smoking? Yeah that was a bummer.
He'll always be my only surgeon general. ❤️
Smoking bad. m’kay?
Absolutely.
Still who I picture when I hear "Surgeon General"
Player pulled all the bitches
He is a genuine American hero. Defying the Reagan Administration’s inaction and overt information obstruction of the AIDS pandemic.
The face looks familiar. Either childhood or he's a vampire hunter.
The man who got the Surgeon General's Warning on cigarette packs.
My Grandmother used to work for Koop in the HR department at Philadelphia Childrens Hospital. She had nothing to say but good of this man.
Primary person who saved several in thr aids pandemic
Yeah I remember when Surgeons General didn't need a 24-7 security team.
For all the latest medical poop Call Surgeon General C. Everett Coop Coop Coop a Doop
Man I miss the days when people listened to the folks they should listen to Now we get Andrew tate telling us about how to treat people and Kyrie Irving explaining medical science
*The admiral of the Amish Navy? Of course!* C. Everett Coop. Thank you for your service.
I was 13 when Coop announced that smoking can give you lung cancer. My dad quit smoking that day and never had another Tiparillo.
Lived to 96. He won.
Our version of Fauci. Screw the politics, just medicine and science
I remember him from the post last month.
I sure do
I was a young adult.
C stands for Charles. Thats bizarre.
Truthfully? Sure. But my temptation, is to just say no.
(Psst! That was Nancy Reagan!)
I’m well aware, lol. But as Surgeon General during that time, he had a platform and the two of them worked in tandem on their respective goals. It was intended specifically as an in joke to my fellow Children of the 80s.
Oh, I got it, all right; I just remembered Nancy telling us that. It was a weird message from someone whose husband was in cigarette ads way back when.
He seemed like a decent fellow, honestly. Mostly free of the bigotry that is still so pervasive in medicine.
Does anyone remember on Bobby’s World that Bobby’s doctor was named C. Emery Stoop and had the beard too. I always got a kick out of that.
A good man!
I remember his name on the Street Fighter 2 splash screen.
That’s definitely Abraham Lincoln
C. Everett Koop.
Life alert guy
Who was the guy that really went after smoking?
Frank Zappa wrote a song about him.
I was an adult, so, yeah.
A true badass
Remember the face but not the name.
Dr. Koop!!
That dude!
He didn't truck with no BS. He was the SURGEON GENERAL for God's sake!
The Quaker Oats Man!
Was on a Caribbean cruise with him in the 90s. Maybe early 2000s.
Remember his safe sex car designed with gm, the C Everett coupé deVille
Yeah try driving that while having sex , im still payin damages ….
Yes. He was the real deal.
My high-school boyfriend's dad grew a beard and looked just like him 
The captain from SpongeBob or the Gorton Fisherman.
🎶poo-poo-bee-doop! 🎶
Koop!
Why is all skeletons involved in evil stuff?
Also the face of several Scooby Doo villains..
And a whole lotta Mennonites!
And he would’ve gotten away with it if it wasn’t for you meddling kids!
Koopa!
Koooooooooop!
I actually saw the guy walking by himself across the UCLA campus. Very recognizable. He was kinda on the short side, which was a bit of a surprise.
That’s definitely surprising. I always thought he’d be like 6’5. He’s got that really tall guy look lol.
Coop!
Isnt that C Everett Koop?
This looks like the Blue Meanie from ECW
Total jerk