Talk:Chief Medical Officer, United States

In answer to User:Closedmouth See Chief medical officer. There was no link to this page so I created it knowing that Surgeon General is broadly the same as Chief Medical Officer in the UK and Ireland. But later I blanked it precisely because the term means different things in different countries. In the UK and Ireland it is the person responsible for health advisory matters at national level... equivalent to the surgeon general of the US but the article implies that Chief Medical Officer in the US is a term for the senior person in a medical institution. So I thought it best not to impose my British perspective of the term if it has a clearly different meaning in the US.