RT Journal
T1 GOvernment services
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1949
FD March 19
VO 139
IS 12
SP 794
OP 795
DO 10.1001/jama.1949.02900290040015
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02900290040015
AB ARMY 
    REORGANIZATION OF ARMY HOSPITALS TO CONSERVE MEDICAL PERSONNEL 
    The Surgeon General of the Army announced March 1 the proposed streamlining of wartime military hospitals in overseas theaters to effect greater economy in the use of personnel in scarce professional categories. The proposed organization is the result of a study of the experiences of the Army Medical Department in overseas theaters during combat. The main wartime obstacle was the lack of flexibility in the use of professional personnel inherent in the older and more rigid Table of Organizations, under which equipment and personnel were welded together as a unit. This concept required larger numbers of professional personnel and was responsible for much enforced idleness during the war. The proposed plan reduces the number and type of medical organizations and authorizes a split between equipment and administrative, on the one hand, and professional personnel on the