I spent two years in the Navy, and after that, worked with Howard Rusk in New York for 18 months. All of us, including my sister, who was the youngest member of the family, became physicians.Īfter graduating from Stanford Medical School, I interned in Boston, came back to Stanford for a year and then volunteered for the Navy in 1949. We were told that we could either be doctors or engineers. Lee: I guess I got into medicine because everybody in the family was in medicine. Mullan: I'd like to start with a biographical sketch of where you came from, how you got into medicine, and what brought you to Washington in the early 1960s.ĭr. Lee: Outside the University, I'm President of the Health Commission for the City and County of San Francisco, and Chairman of the Physician Payment Review Commission, which was established by Congress to recommend reforms in physician payment in the Medicare program.ĭr. Lee is chairman of the Commission and visiting from his home in San Francisco, where he is Director of the Institute for Health Policy Studies and Professor of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. Mullan: We are at the offices of the Physician Payment Review Commission in Washington, D.C Dr. History of Health Services Research Project
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