Reminiscences of George Baehr : oral history, 1976.

Biographical Note

Physician

Scope and Contents

Columbia Medical School, early 1900s; internship; European studies; Mt. Sinai Hospital: Division of General Pathology, typhoid fever research, Clinical Pathological Conferences, 1919-1950, professionalizing lab services, consultation service for people of moderate means, home care for housing development residents, Director of Clinical Research; World War II: Chief Medical Officer Office of Civilian Defense, Red Cross; Mayor La Guardia: Health Insurance Plan; evaluation of 1965 Medicare, Medicaid amendments; state standards for nursing homes; medical provisions of Workmen's Compensation Act; New York Public Health Council; national health insurance proposals; Milbank Memorial Fund

Subjects

• Baehr, George.
• Health insurance.
• Hospital and community.
• Hospital care--United States.
• Interviews.
• Medicare.
• Mount Sinai Hospital (New York, N.Y.)
• Nursing homes.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Physicians--Interviews.
• Sheaffer, Louis, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• World War, 1939-1945.