In his statement, delivered after several months of controversy over his nomination, Koop asserted that his 35-year career as pediatrician-in-chief at one of the nation's leading children's hospitals gave him the medical and administrative experience to be an effective Surgeon General, contrary to critics' contention that a surgeon devoted to the care of individual patients was not qualified to address the health needs of the nation as a whole. Koop delivered his statement before a committee chaired by his most outspoken critic in the Senate, Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts.
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