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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 8. december 2004 / Time Line December 8, 2004
Version 3.57. December 2004, 9. December 2004
12/08/2004
Possibility of a Military Draft Of Doctors Worries the
AMA
By: Christopher Windham
Wall Street Journal
The Selective Service System said it is reviewing a little-known
contingency plan for drafting physicians, nurses and other health
professionals, causing concern at the American Medical Association,
which voted yesterday to communicate with the agency on the
issue.
The plan, called the Health Care Personnel Delivery System, was
authorized by Congress in 1987 to handle an emergency need for
medical personnel during a conflict. About 3.4 million male and
female health- care workers ages 20 to 44 would be expected to
register with the Selective Service if the president called for the
plan to be put into action, and Congress approved.
A paper published this year in the Wisconsin Medical Journal, by
Wisconsin Army National Guard State Surgeon Col. Roger A. Lalich,
said that, though a general draft is not likely to occur, a
physician draft is "the most likely conscription into the military
in the near future." A Selective Service newsletter last year
expressed a similar view.
12/08/2004
Den amerikanske forretningsmand og våbenhandler Dale Stoffel
dræbes i Irak.
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