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

by Harold M. Koenig

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476677328
• ISBN13: 9781476677323
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher