Letter to the Editor

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 663-664
Author(s):  
Harris D. Riley
Keyword(s):  
Health Service ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Oklahoma City ◽  
Memorial Hospital ◽  
Indian Health Service ◽  
Exchange Programs ◽  
City Area ◽  
Exchange Program ◽  
Indian Health ◽  
University Of Oklahoma

Dr. Zinaman misinterpreted the report of the Committee on Indian Health. The report did not state that the Oklahoma City Area, Indian Health Service (IHS) was a prototype for the entire Indian Health Service. However, it did state that it was hoped that the exchange program which has been established in the Oklahoma City Area, IHS, in which residents in pediatrics at the Children's Memorial Hospital, University of Oklahoma Medical Center, are exchanged with medical officers at IHS facilities might serve as a prototype for the initiation of exchange programs in other geographic areas.

Letter to the Editor

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 502-502
Author(s):  
Stanley L. Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Health Service ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Community Health Services ◽  
Considerable Extent ◽  
Indian Health Service ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
Advisory Body ◽  
Indian Health ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Indian Worker

I will not attempt to discuss the disagreement between Dr. Eisner and Dr. Gilbert, but would like to inform Dr. Gilbert that the Executive Board of the American Academy of Pediatrics has charged the Committee on Community Health Services with the problem of migrant workers and their families. This committee is to work closely with our Committee on Indian Health, which as an advisory body to the Indian Health Service, has been involved to a considerable extent with the problem of the migrant Indian worker.

Opportunities for Pediatric Training in the Indian Health Service

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 932-932
Author(s):  
Michael Kagan Posner
Keyword(s):  
Health Service ◽  
Department Of Defense ◽  
Indian Health Service ◽  
Indian Health ◽  
Pediatric Services

As a partially trained pediatrician in the Indian Health Service, interested in the Report of the Committee on Indian Health, I would like to add some personal observations: 1. The number of training deferments through CORD is determined by needs of the Department of Defense, to which pediatric services are not essential although a convenience. Because pediatric services are critical in Indian Health where the population is markedly skewed to younger ages, could not the Committee propose that, while the draft continues, pediatricians might choose their branch of service?

THE INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE: COMMENTARY ON A COMMENTARY

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 51 (6) ◽  
pp. 1066-1067
Author(s):  
Sidney R. Kemberling
Keyword(s):  
Health Service ◽  
American Academy ◽  
Indian Health Service ◽  
Study Research ◽  
Indian Health ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Alternative Solutions

As Chairman of the Committee on Indian Health of the American Academy of Pediatrics, I would like to comment on Dr. Mortimer's provocative commentary: "Indian Health: An Unmet Problem." In the main I agree with its content, but I would modify some of his statements and offer additional or alternative solutions. Dr. Mortimer sees problems in the Albuquerque area, and he is inclined to generalize from them to the entire Indian Health Service. Although problems exist everywhere, they differ from area to area in their nature and severity. For example, in his first paragraph he refers to the fact that Indian Health Service physicians have little time for study, research, and reflection.

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