The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-02-11
1t. Shay Fyfe
Says Lee HOlcOmb
Is off the Beam
Dear Mr.. Reed:

Dear Mr.. Reed:
unite some time has passed since
i, ,,ava written you and with that
two has come a greater apprecia-
.;o, for the paper which is regu-
,orIv received from you. Thank
you again. ,.
I,,st one brief word about myself
= homes that it will reach many OF
the fellows with whom I was as
ouainted at home but whom I can't
s s to locate since the war has
heen under way. I am still at ELL
inuton Field, Texas! still command
inc officer of the medical detach-
ment but one slight change has
occurred. Jan. 10 I received my
promotion to first lieutenant. Also
since last writing we have had an
other girl-seven pounds and sone-
half ounce on Dec. %. We are quite
thrilled about both OF the above
You may send on my warm con-
oratulations to Jim Reed on the
GOOD work he seems to be doing for
ne all 1t is shame that we all
can't be there with him.
The paper of. Jan. 81 arrived to-
day which prompted my writing
I have read the letter from Lee Hol-
comb several times and firmly be-
lieye that an injustice has been done
to the Judgment of the army in
many of his statements. This should
not be taken as political argu-
ment with anyone nor in any way
a Recommendation to write to your
congressman encouraging him to
give negative vote on the Durham
REYNOLDS bill. I feel as strongly
as Lee does that a separate pharnn-
acy corps in the army would be a
benefit. However, I hope to put
forth here a little food for thought
before everyone sits down and uses
a lot of valuable paper writing to
congressman to vote YES.
Many army pharmacy depart
ments do have the "90-day plarna-
cists" In them. We have one in
our pharmacy-in addition, we also
have a civil service pharmacist il,
charge and three enlisted men who
are registered pharmacists in civil
life. Although I am speaking with
a very limited knowledge of the
situation in the entire army, this
situation is true in a majority of
situations. Every pharmacy has a
pharmacy officer in charge, who is
Q medical officer (doctor). although
he does not give constant personal
supervision to each prescription be-
ing filled. A pharmacy officer who
was registered pharmacist and II,
constant supervision would be a
valuable addition. However, df
q separate pharmacy corps were es-
tablished and all the pharmacists
now in the army were commissioned
on the basis of their education
where would we get enlisted men to
do the bulk of the work if we did
not use men with absolutely no
training the men who have at
tended the three-month pharmacy
service school? In this time of war
we must realize that we do not have
a sufficient amount of trained men
10 meet all demands both military
and civilian: slightly trained men
are far better than men with not
the slightest touch of an education,
The term "90-day pharmacists
does an injustice in itself. In col
iege we spent hours with English,
social sciences, related sciences,
physical education, and others which
hao no direct bearing on the prac-
tice OF pharmacy. We spent hours
on actual pharmaceutical subjects
winch In some respects had nothing
70 DO with the compromising of pre-
scriptions. Three months of con-
centrated study on prescription
Writing, reading, and compromising,
aions with some related subjects
can well be, classed as a fair
course for a man with no previous
n'solcal training. The professors
are the best available instance
-cne officer teaching compromising
at ule service school where our en-
nsseo men attend was a dean of
pnarmacy at an eastern college.
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