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Below the Secretary as the nation's chief health officer is burly, outspoken Dr. Roger Egeberg, who was installed as second choice after an unseemly brawl in which the American Medical Association persuaded the President to veto Finch's favorite for the job, Boston's Dr. John H. Knowles (TIME, July 4). After eleven months on the job, Egeberg succeeded only last week in filling three of the five top spots (carrying the rank of deputy assistant secretary) with nominees who are politically acceptable to the Administration. Among the special agencies under Egeberg's authority...
...Ripples. Last week Egeberg asked Yolles if he had heard the rumors. Then he added: "Well, they're true." Yolles spoke of submitting a "little letter of resignation that won't cause any ripples." Next day Egeberg sputtered as he read a vituperative letter of resignation from Yolles, who also had given it to the press. Yolles delivered an indictment accusing the Administration, among other things, of abandonment of the mentally ill, substitution of rhetoric for monetary support in federal drug-abuse and alcohol-control programs, allowing the Justice Department to meddle in medical determinations, and "introduction...
...Viet Nam policy was a disaster. Eventually he persuaded the President to stop the bombing of North Viet Nam and start deescalation. To many, resignation is simply unrealistic. Responding to students who wanted him to resign as a protest against Nixon's Cambodian foray, Dr. Roger Egeberg, HEW's Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs, was totally matter-of-fact: "What on earth good do you think a resignation does?" he asked. "It would be like a moth in a flame, hardly remembered the next...
...thousands more paramedical personnel. Secretary Finch sincerely believes that the modest expansions of federal health programs that he has submitted to Congress are important steps in the right direction, but will not commit himself to true national insurance. His chief assistant for health affairs, Under Secretary Roger O. Egeberg, thinks that some such plan may very well evolve in "six to seven years." His prognosis is as good...
...ironic, says HEW's Egeberg, that some of the most venerable medical schools in the country have not yet recognized the need for this new medicine: "They will have to follow the lead that Meharry is helping to chart, in the way that they train their students and in their approach to meeting the long-neglected health needs of the poor...