Editing C. Everett Koop (section)

==Death and legacy==
At a November 2010 news conference, Koop spoke from a wheelchair and said that he was "very, very deaf" and [[legally blind]].<ref name="Washington Post press conference">{{cite news|last=Brown|first=David|title=AIDS is 'forgotten epidemic,' Koop says|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/17/AR2010111706552.html|newspaper=Washington Post|date=November 18, 2010|access-date=June 17, 2019}}</ref> Koop died on February 25, 2013, at the age of 96 at his home in [[Hanover, New Hampshire]].<ref name="USA Today death">{{cite news|last=Palmer|first=Kim|title=Former surgeon general C. Everett Koop dead at age 96|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/02/25/surgeon-general-koop/1947347/|newspaper=USA Today|date=February 25, 2013}}</ref> According to a Koop aide, he had been ill for several months and had suffered [[kidney failure]] the previous week.<ref name="VTDigger-Valley News">{{cite news|last=Brubeck|first=Sarah|title=Nation's former top doctor and Dartmouth legend C. Everett Koop dies|url=http://vtdigger.org/2013/02/26/nations-former-top-doctor-c-everett-koop-dies/|newspaper=VTDigger.org via Valley News|date=February 26, 2013}}</ref>  No official determination of cause of death has yet been announced.{{Current event inline|date=February 2020}}<ref name="slate">{{cite news|title=RIP, C. Everett Koop|author=Josh Voorhees|date=February 25, 2013|work=Slate|url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/02/25/c_everett_koop_former_surgeon_general_dead_at_96.html}}</ref>

Remarking on Koop's death, [[American Medical Association]] president Jeremy Lazarus commented, "Because of what he did, and the way he did it, he had a dramatic impact on public health."<ref name=rembering>{{cite magazine|title=Remembering Dr. C. Everett Koop, America's Doctor|author=Alice Park|date=February 27, 2013|magazine=Time|url=https://healthland.time.com/2013/02/27/remembering-dr-c-everett-koop-americas-doctor/|access-date=February 27, 2013}}</ref>  The Associated Press called his impact "great",<ref name="slate"/>  while ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]'' called him "a courageous and brilliant pediatric surgeon who pioneered techniques ... and became an outspoken surgeon general".<ref name="Inquirer">{{cite news|title=Gallery : C. Everett Koop, 96, former surgeon general with deep Philadelphia roots|author=Andy Wallace|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer|date=February 26, 2013|url=http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20130226_C__Everett_Koop__96__former_surgeon_general_with_deep_Philadelphia_roots.html}}</ref>  Writing for ''[[The New Yorker]]'', [[Michael Specter]] said, "I don't think I have ever met anyone for whom I had more respect... In this era, during which progress, facts, and science are under unrelenting siege, it is thrilling to remember that even ideologues can love the truth."<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Postscript: C. Everett Koop, 1916–2013|author=Michael Specter|magazine=The New Yorker|date=February 26, 2012|url=http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/02/postscript-c-everett-koop-1916-2013.html|access-date=February 27, 2012|author-link=Michael Specter}}</ref>