Subsequently, he became the special assistant to the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, really the first precursor of the Assistant Secretary for Health, during the Eisenhower Administration. Chester Keefer, while he was the chief of medicine, professor of medicine, and was one of the leading medical professors in his day, was also commuting regularly to Washington during that period of time for the National Academy of Sciences, to run the penicillin trials and then streptomycin trials. Then in 1956, I went to the Palo Alto Clinic, which is pretty much what I intended to do as an internist in the Department of Medicine.ĭuring the earlier periods, one thing I think is important to point out, I had worked for people who really were role models. Then I went to the Mayo Clinic for a fellowship, came back and worked with Howard Rusk again on the faculty at NYU. 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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