Sketch of the Navy Medical Center

ID: 366 ~ Source: https://www.npr.org/2011/09/02/139641918/change-is-hard-army-navy-hospitals-merge ~ Creator: Franklin Delano Roosevelt ~ Date: 1937
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FDR once served in the Navy and, due to his battle with polio, held interest in advances in healthcare. As a result, Roosevelt closely followed the development of the Navy Medical Center.

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By Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"Battles cannot be fought and won without cost - and the cost may be heavy in ships and man. The brave and skillful men and women of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery are dedicated to the task of reducing the cost in men, saving lives on deck,…