Word: pugh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speakers included Freshman Dean F. Skiddy von Stade; Jim Wade, Dunster intramural secretary; Adolph Samborski, intramural athletic director; Roger Pugh, Council adviser; and Dwight Holloway, Council vice-president...
Rear Admiral Lamont Pugh's biased criticism in TIME, Dec. 1 is typical of the narrow attitude of top medical brass hierarchy in the armed forces. The majority of American doctors & dentists are not interested in military medicine . . . The thing that makes military medicine revolting to most doctors is not the hardships of service or the burden of overwork in the professional aspects of medicine, but red tape, confusion, idleness, waste of talents, boredom and paper work...
...Since when," Pugh asked the Association of Military Surgeons, "has the doctor of medicine and dentistry become such a pantywaist as to require that a bald responsibility, which others accept with good grace, must be decked out with certain frills before he will buy it?" Pugh brushed aside objections that military service for doctors involves too much moving around or too little chance for advanced training. The main objection remaining, he said, "is simply a matter of easier, quicker and bigger money-avarice; a better, if . . . possibly an ephemeral, opportunity to get rich quick...
From the same platform, A.M.A. President Louis Bauer soon fired back: "[Admiral Pugh's] statements were an unjustifiable slur on the vast majority of the medical profession, and were calculated . . . to hurt the very cause in which he and all the rest of us are interested." Navyman Pugh backed water, but not much. "If I have offended any one for whom no offense was intended," he said, "then it is to that group [that] . . . I owe an apology . . . My critical remarks . . . were leveled at an element or group in the medical profession who have not served in the armed...
Slur or not, Admiral Pugh's attack emphasized the bald fact that the armed forces are still having trouble getting enough doctors. Soon they may have to start drafting physicians and dentists up to 51 years...