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Letter from C. A. Yeakel, United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Public Health Service Indian Hospital to C. Everett Koop
Letter from C. A. Yeakel, United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Public Health Service Indian Hospital to C. Everett Koop
This is an example of the hundreds of letters of appreciation Koop received from former patients on whom he successfully operated. The author, who had himself become a physician, went on to discuss funding and staffing problems in the Indian Health Service.