debate throughout the country, and all we read in the press, about medicine in Government, it might be well to spend a few minutes on the background of the medical program of the Veterans' Administration and how it came into being. I think it will help you to appreciate the strength of it and the reason why it has met with such success in a relatively few short years. The present medical program, which I was fortunate enough to inherit and had nothing to do with creating, is only about 6 years old. It was brought into being by great vision and by appeal to nongovernmental medicine to form a team and work with governmental medicine. Its strength and success have been due to these two great forces. They have worked magnificently together. Any factor that might be injected which would tend to separate these two great forces would tear down the strength and destroy the success of the Department of Medicine and Surgery of the Veterans' Administration. I have some charts here, and with your indulgence I should like to have Mr. Rosen, of my staff, make a presentation, in which he will review the history from the beginning of the medical program, not of the Veterans' Administration, but what has eventuated as the medical program of the Veterans' Administration. I am sorry for the visitors in the back of the room that these charts are not larger and cannot be seen, but I hope the committee will be able to see them. We have other charts of which we have duplicates which will be passed around. If I may have Mr. Rosen make this presentation, I shall appreciate it. (The charts referred to follow :) OJAJOJAJO JAJOJAJOJAJO JAJOJAJOJAJOJA JOJAJO 5 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 30158 O- 53 (Face p. 118) No. 1 |