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James W. Wilson, MD
Indian Health Service Hospital Fort Yates, ND

JAMA. 1975;231(12):1228.

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To the Editor.—

I am a practicing physician from Coffeeville, Kan, who recently became aware of the serious plight of the Sioux Indians at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota. At the present time, there is only one full-time physician to provide care for 6,500 Indians in this area. For the past 20 years, physicians have been serving in the Indian Health Service in preference to going on active duty in the Armed Forces. With the discontinuation of the Doctor Draft, physicians have stopped volunteering to come on active duty in the Public Health Service, and a serious health-care problem has developed. A number of physicians, like myself, have volunteered to come and serve for short periods of time. Many additional volunteers will be needed until sufficient numbers of young physicians can be recruited and until physicians who are now in training programs funded by the Public Health Service . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Edited by John D. Archer, MD, Senior Editor.

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