Los Angeles TimesSurgeon General Once Paid in Oysters Pushed Health Care to AllBloombergJuly 14 (Bloomberg) -- After Hurricane Katrina, Regina Benjamin took only what her patients could afford to pay: bushels of oysters or lumps of Gulf Coast crab meat. Her Alabama health clinic was destroyed and still she helped, ...Obama taps former FAMU trustee to be surgeon generalTallahassee DemocratFrom storm-tossed Ala.