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==Later career== Following his career as Surgeon General, Koop was on The Firestorm Solutions Expert Council.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.firestorm.com/en/cms/?800 |title=Firestorm Solutions β Surgeon General C. Everett Koop Joins Firestorm Expert Council |publisher=Firestorm.com |access-date=September 23, 2009 |archive-date=October 8, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091008064433/http://firestorm.com/en/cms/?800 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Koop hosted a documentary series in 1991, simply titled ''[[C. Everett Koop, M.D.]]'' It aired for six episodes on [[NBC]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Goodman |first=Walter |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE7DB123DF937A35755C0A967958260 |title=Review/Television; Health Care of America's Children |work=The New York Times |date=June 4, 1991 |access-date=September 23, 2009}}</ref> Koop and other investors established drkoop.com in 1997, during the [[dot-com bubble]].<ref name="USA Today death" /> This medical information website was one of the first major online sources of health information. Critical review of the site content revealed that many of the private care listings, medicinal recommendations, and medical trial referrals were paid advertisements. The company went bankrupt in 2001.<ref name="USA Today death" /> Koop continued to endorse [[Life Alert]] bracelets for the elderly. In 1999, while testifying before Congress, Koop minimized concerns from health groups about the severity of allergies relating to the use of latex gloves.<ref name="Bloomberg death" /> It was later discovered that a company that manufactured latex gloves had previously paid Koop $650,000 for consulting work.<ref name="Bloomberg death" /> Koop held three professorships at [[Dartmouth Medical School]], where he was also the senior scholar at the C. Everett Koop Institute.<ref name="Dartmouth School of Medicine bio" />
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