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American Medical Association, Surgeon General Thomas Parran stated bald facts about one of the most ticklish topics in medical circles-the question of licensing refugee doctors...
This shortage of nurses, said Surgeon General Thomas Parran last week, is a "definite menace" to U.S. health. At least 30,000 more nurses, he admitted, are needed right now for the Army, Navy, hospitals, public health work in rural areas. At present, there are 300,000 working nurses in the U.S., about 100,000 retired. Last year 38,000 new nurses enrolled in training schools; this year 50,000 are needed, says the Public Health Service. Reasons for the shortage: 1) Government health funds have greatly expanded State health programs, have provided more nurses' jobs; 2) more people...
First problem facing the gerontologists is to get funds for research. Sadly they note that when two boys out West died of plague (TIME, Sept. 8), Surgeon General Thomas Parran called a conference which urged the Government to spend $1,800,000 on plague fighting. And though only 1,000 people die of infantile paralysis each year, so much money is raised to combat it that the chief problem is devising ways to spend it. But no one had any idea where to find anything like $2,000,000 a year needed to study aging, the greatest enemy...
Surgeon General Thomas Parran, a devout Catholic, believes that the only solution to the problem is for soldiers to remain continent. He would like to see pretty girls hired for recreation jobs in Army camps, for he thinks that soldiers are starved for companionship...
Although this was only the second case of plague in the U.S. this year, the U.S. Public Health Service was so alarmed that Surgeon General Thomas Parran called a meeting of anti-plague workers in Salt Lake City last week...