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Memorandum from C. Everett Koop to the Under Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services
Memorandum from C. Everett Koop to the Under Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services
Contributor(s):
Koop, Charles Everett, 1916-2013 United States Department of Health and Human Services. Under Secretary
The first paragraph, in which Koop emphasizes that he, unlike other high-ranking officials in the Department of Health and Human Services, had extensive personal experience with the implementation of federal health policy from more than thirty years as a pediatric surgeon, was left out of the final draft of the memorandum.
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