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To: moonshot925
He enlisted as a physician examiner in 1944

Moving story, but what was a 'physician examiner'? Enquiring minds want to know. ;-)

2 posted on 07/06/2012 6:39:16 PM PDT by doc1019 (Voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil.)
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To: doc1019
Moving story, but what was a 'physician examiner'? Enquiring minds want to know. ;-)

Good question,I wondered the same thing.The best theory I can come up with is some sort of "physician's assistant"...a hospitalman on steroids.

Just thinking out loud...

5 posted on 07/06/2012 6:45:14 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Bill Ayers Was *Not* "Just Some Guy In The Neighborhood")
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To: doc1019

>> what was a ‘physician examiner’? Enquiring minds want to know. ;-)

“Turn your head and cough please, Doctor...”

And God bless Dr. Edwards. Although I was a cold war submariner myself, and after I got out of the Navy, *I* never once felt a “tug of the sea” to go back to it... :-)


7 posted on 07/06/2012 7:00:15 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
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To: doc1019

Shanker mechanic...that said, Semper Fi, all!


10 posted on 07/06/2012 7:12:57 PM PDT by SgtBob (Freedom is not for the faint of heart. Semper Fi!)
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To: doc1019
Moving story, but what was a 'physician examiner'?

I believe the 'physician examiner' was rated to employ a proctoscope on proctologists.

12 posted on 07/06/2012 7:44:35 PM PDT by RobinOfKingston (The instinct toward liberalism is located in the part of the brain called the rectal lobe.)
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