President Obama’s troubled nomination of Vivek Murthy, MD to become the nation’s next Surgeon General raises important questions of policy and politics.  The political is pretty obvious.  Dr. Murthy is an accomplished physician at the age of 36 with a fascinating personal history, having been born in Britain to Indian parents.  He is now at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital teaching for Harvard Medical School following education at Harvard and Yale in medicine and management.  He co-founded “...