From 4-F to U.S. Navy Surgeon General: A Physician's Memoir

by Harold M. Koenig M.D.

Overview

In 1959, Harold M. Koenig was discharged after his first year at the U.S. Naval Academy because of progressive hearing loss and went on to college, then medical school. In 1965, the draft board notified him that upon completion of his internship in 1967 he would be drafted despite his disability--as the conflict in Vietnam escalated, many doctors with previously disqualifying medical conditions were reclassified as eligible to serve. Rather than wait to be drafted, Koenig volunteered for a Navy program that made him an ensign and paid all expenses for his final year of medical school. His memoir recounts his remarkable career path from 4-F midshipman to vice admiral and his service in the most senior positions in military medicine.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476635897
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	04/11/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	215
File size:	5 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

After a 32-year career in Navy medicine, Harold M. Koenig, M.D., serves on government advisory, philanthropic, not-for-profit and small business start-up boards. He lives in San Diego, California.
After a 32-year career in Navy medicine, Harold M. Koenig, M.D., serves on government advisory, philanthropic, not-for-profit and small business start-up boards. He lives in San Diego, California.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
 1. Life Before the Navy
 2. Back in the Navy
 3. Sasebo, Japan
 4. San Diego
 5. Oakland
 6. Portsmouth
 7. Return to San Diego
 8. Bethesda
 9. Naval Medical Command, Washington
10. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Washington
11. The Pentagon
12. Deputy Surgeon General
13. Surgeon General
14. Life After the Navy
Appendix: Acronyms
Index