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Phil Gunby
JAMA contributor

JAMA. 1998;280:1647.

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WHEN PHYSICIANS MEET at Baltonfoldvar beside Lake Balaton in western Hungary next September for the seventh annual American-Hungarian Military Medical Conference, the US armed forces medical people will have been part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) for a half century while Hungary's military medics will have been in that alliance for just a half year.

The conference logo, depicting items including dog tags, pills, and flags, was designed by US Army civilian employee E. Michael Sandoval. (Photo credit: US Army)

Military medical cooperation between the two nations is cited by US command officials in Europe as one of the leading success stories in the preparations for Hungary's entry into NATO next spring. Since 1993, military physicians from Hungary and the United States have met in joint scientific meetings, an approach that US forces in Europe plan to use with medical counterparts from two other would-be NATO . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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