TY - JOUR T1 - GOvernment services Y1 - 1949/03/19 N1 - 10.1001/jama.1949.02900290040015 JO - Journal of the American Medical Association SP - 794 EP - 795 VL - 139 IS - 12 N2 - 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 SN - 0002-9955 M3 - doi: 10.1001/jama.1949.02900290040015 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02900290040015 ER -