Oral history interview with Bruce Barron [electronic resource], 1992

Biographical Note

Physician.

Scope and Contents

Education and medical training; Health and Hospitals Corporation [H.H.C.]: appointment to H.H.C. board of directors, problems with city hospital system at beginning of Mayor Edward I. Koch's [Koch] tenure, inefficiency of H.H.C., quality of care of H.H.C., assessment of New York City's medical system; evaluation of Koch; conflict with Doctors' Council; failure of Community Doctors program; politics and medical decisions; problems with Emergency Medical Service.

Subjects

• Barron, Bruce A.--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Koch, Ed, 1924-2013.
• New York (N.Y.). Mayor.
• Oral histories.
• Physicians--Interviews.
• Zane, Sharon, interviewer.