Achievement of the Army Medical Department in the War

Whatever is due to the Medical Department of the United States Army for its achievement during the recent war may be credited to the training and experience of its regular personnel, on the administrative side, and to the generous and efficient cooperation of the physicians and surgeons of this country, on the professional side. When we entered upon this war, every military man in the country realized that we were unprepared for it. Not that the possibility of getting into a war of such dimensions had been ignored by officers of the Army, who in fact, with but small encouragement, had done everything humanly possible to be ready for the emergency; but the fact has developed that every modern war of magnitude requires national as well as military mobilization. …
Source: JAMA - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research