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February 2008, Vol 98, No. 2 | American Journal of Public Health 254-257
© 2008 American Public Health Association

VOICES FROM THE PAST

A World to Care For

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.


Figure 1
Howard A. Rusk, MD, in 1950.

Source. Courtesy of Straight Ahead Pictures Inc, Center for Disability and Public History.

WHEN I RETURNED HOME I sensed something terrible had happened. . . . The radio had just announced that the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor. Instinctively I knew that from this day on, my life was to be drastically changed. I closed out my practice of internal medicine in St. Louis and joined the Air Force . . . as a medical service major in August 1942. . . . Colonel McDowell appointed me Chief of Medical Services of a 1000 . . . [Full Text]






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