RT Journal
A1 M. R. C.
T1 REsults of general order 73 on demobilization
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1919
FD February 1
VO 72
IS 5
SP 367
OP 367
DO 10.1001/jama.1919.02610050049026
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610050049026
AB To the Editor: 
    —As the American Medical Association proved of great benefit to the Surgeon-General in the matter of obtaining physicians for the Medical Reserve Corps, it is probable that an objection from you concerning some of the practices now in force in the discharging of officers would have more weight than if from us as individuals. I refer to the changing of the status of the reserve officers by G. O. 73, W. D. 1918, and the practice of letting men out of the service without previous notice.Those of us who entered the service prior to August were members of the Reserve Corps, commissioned to serve five years, on active service during a national emergency. At the termination of the emergency, we were to be ordered to our homes and there placed on an inactive basis. This gave us pay during the period of travel, and also the