Another View on Ex-Surgeon General

Let’s knock off the imperceptive glorifying of that pompous grandstander Everett Koop (View, Nov. 19).

He spent most of his time in office inveighing against smoking and other secondary problems, when he should have been doing something about the scandalous lack of a comprehensive national health care system.

That has killed more people than all the diseases Koop could name.

GLADWIN HILL

Los Angeles