From 4-F to U.S. Navy Surgeon General : A Physician's Memoir

Koenig, Harold M.

McFarland & Co Inc（2019/04発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 215 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781476677323
• DDC分類 359.345092

Full Description

In 1959, Harold M. Koenig was discharged after his first year at the U.S. Naval Academy because of progressive hearing loss and went on to college, then medical school. In 1965, the draft board notified him that upon completion of his internship in 1967 he would be drafted despite his disability--as the conflict in Vietnam escalated, many doctors with previously disqualifying medical conditions were reclassified as eligible to serve. Rather than wait to be drafted, Koenig volunteered for a Navy program that made him an ensign and paid all expenses for his final year of medical school. His memoir recounts his remarkable career path from 4-F midshipman to vice admiral and his service in the most senior positions in military medicine.

Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

 1. Life Before the Navy

 2. Back in the Navy

 3. Sasebo, Japan

 4. San Diego

 5. Oakland

 6. Portsmouth

 7. Return to San Diego

 8. Bethesda

 9. Naval Medical Command, Washington

10. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Washington

11. The Pentagon

12. Deputy Surgeon General

13. Surgeon General

14. Life After the Navy

Appendix: Acronyms

Index