Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-07-24
DOCTORS NEEDED FOR ARMY.
$4,000 Now in Army and Navy--Win
Need $4,000.

Washington, July 1S.-The GOV
ernment Is about to assume control
of the entire medical profession in
the United States to obtain sufficient
doctors for the fast growing army,
and at the same time to distribute
those remaining to the localities or
services where they are most needed
for civilian work.
This mobilization is to be accom-
plished either by enrolling all doc
tors In volunteer service CORDS un-
der pledge to accept whatever SER
vice, military or civilian, is assigned
them by the governing body of the
corps, or, If the voluntary plan is not
successful, by legislation providing
for drafting them into government
service. Medical officers of the gov
ernment believe compulsory conscrip-
ton will not be necessary.
Plans Already Perfected.
Organization plans for the Volun-
teer Medical Service Corps already
have been made and enrolment
started in few States under author
ity of the Council Of National De-
fense. Instead Of enrolling in this
corps only those physicians not suita-
BILE for military service, either be-
cause Of age, physical infrmity, de-
pendency or institutional or public
need, as planned at present, the gov
ernment is expected shortly to throw
open the membership to all doctors,
and to bind them with a pledge "dur-
ing the present emergency to accent
service, military or civilian, wher-
ever, whenever. and for whatever
duty he may be called by the central
governing board"
Under this projected plan, the army
and navy would take those physicians
and surgeons best fitted for active
duty, and who can be spared from
civilian requirements. At the same
time, the government would main
tain a continuous survey Of the
coun try, and assign doctors to those
communities in which there are too
few practitioners.
The practical operation, officials be-
lieve, would cause little Of this relo-
cation, however, since physicians who
are needed in certain communities,
hospitals, schools, or other essential
civilian service would not be commits
stoned in the army.
$4,000 Needed for Army.
Conferences Of doctors wera held
to-day in Washington and a number
of other cities to discuss the opera
ton Of the voluntary enrolment
plan. A committee Of army and
navy surgeons also completed to-day
recommendations for inclusion In the
Volunteer Medical Service Corps all
doctors. instead of only those dis
qualified for military service.
OF the 143,O00 doctors In the Uni
ted States, 1t is estimated between
$4,000 and $4,000 are in active prac-
tice, and $4,000, or about one-fourth,
are in the army or navy. Nearly
$4,000 will be required eventually
for the army. The active practition-
ers remaining, together with those
who have retired. but who can be
persuaded to resume active work,
must carry on the health mainten-
ance work in this country.
1t became known to-day that Sur
geon Gems. Gorgas, of the army;
Braisted, Of the navy, and Blue, Of
the public health service, are consid-
ering a plan for commissioning all
teachers in medical schools and as
signing them to their present duties.
This would constitute a means Of
preventing further disruption Of
medical teaching staffs, and at the
same time recognizing the public
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