When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.

D. Critical review of the site content revealed that many of the private care listings medicinal recommendations and medical trial referrals were paid advertisements. " Years later he and his wife wrote a book called Sometimes Mountains Move to help others who had lost a child.

According to the Associated Press "Koop was the only surgeon general to become a household name". He was a vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and served as the 13th Surgeon General of the United States under President Ronald Reagan from 1982 to 1989. Charles Everett Koop MD (October 14 1916 – February 25 2013) was an American pediatric surgeon and public health administrator.