Army Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho says "We must do better"

Army surgeon general: ‘We must be better’
By Joe Gould - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday Jan 31, 2012 11:59:56 EST

ARMY Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho is the Army's new surgeon general.

The new Army surgeon general called on military medical professionals to do better, citing high numbers of soldiers who are not ready to serve for medical reasons, as well as Army suicide and sexual assault statistics.

Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho, named to the post in December, said in her first major policy speech that Army medicine must embrace the Internet, social media and other new technology to maximize their influence on patients’ health decisions.

She called on health professionals to focus beyond patient visits, which equate to 100 minutes annually and a small fraction of their lives.


“World-class health care is what we do, but we have to focus on health, the other 99 percent of the patients’ lives, to improve their health,” she said Tuesday at the Military Health System Conference in National Harbor, Md.

Horoho is the first woman and nurse corps officer to be named Army surgeon general.
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