Rear Admiral Ross T. McIntire (later Vice Admiral) (MC)
Chief of Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Dec. 1938-Dec. 1946
When the Army and Navy notified the P&A Service that 42,000 additional military physicians would be required by the end of 1942, the P&A advised that this need was rapidly approaching the maximum consistent with maintaining essential civilian health services.24 In the fall of 1942 procurement of physicians by BuMed was restricted to the five states (New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, California, Illinois) where the civilian shortage was the least acute.
