Tall and camera-ready, Richard E. Besser resembles someone who is not a doctor but plays one on television. Except that he is a doctor who right now must also play one, while some of us are washing our hands 20 times a day to ward off the new incarnation of swine flu. -
CDC Chief Faces Our Fears of Flu With a Soothing Bedside Manner
Tall and camera-ready, Richard E. Besser resembles someone who is not a doctor but plays one on television. Except that he is a doctor who right now must also play one, while some of us are washing our hands 20 times a day to ward off the new incarnation of swine flu.-
By David Montgomery