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"General Douglas MacArthur's" Physician Roger Egeberg Signed Article COA:
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Up for sale General Douglas MacArthur's personal physician Roger Egeberg Hand Signed Article.  This item is

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 Roger Olaf Egeberg, M.D. (13 November 1902 – 13 September

1997 Washington, D.C.) was an American medical

educator, administrator and advocate of public health.

He was General Douglas MacArthur's personal

physician during World War II in the Pacific theater. His other

roles included Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs in the

Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (now the United States

Department of Health and Human Services) during the Nixon administration

and Dean of the University of Southern California's

medical school. Egeberg was born in Chicago,

Illinois to Hans Olaf Egeberg (1875-1932) and Ulrikka Rostrup

Egeberg (1875-1932) (née Nielsen), a Norwegian immigrant family. Egeberg

married a Canadian sculptor, Margaret Chahoon (25 August 1904 - 31

March 2011), in 1929. Together, they had a son and three daughters. Egeberg

received a bachelor's degree in 1925 from Cornell University where he was a member

of the Quill and Dagger society. He earned his

medical degree in 1929 at Northwestern University school of medicine. He became an internist

and joined the faculty of Western

Reserve University School of Medicine. During World War II, Egeberg

was a member of the 4th General Hospital which was sent to Australia.

From there he transferred to Milne Bay, Papua New

Guinea (PNG) where he organised field stations and was a malaria control

officer. Through determined attempts to control illnesses such as malaria and

sexually transmitted diseases in PNG, Egeberg was noticed by MacArthur who made

him his personal physician and aide-de-camp.

Egeberg rose to the rank of colonel and was awarded the Bronze Star

Medal and the Legion of

Merit. At the end of the war, Egeberg treated the Prime Minister

of Japan, Hideki Tojo who

had shot himself. Tojo was later hanged. After the war, Egeberg was Chief of Medicine

at Wadsworth General Hospital, head of County-University of Southern California Medical

Center (1959) and Dean, USC School of Medicine (1964).

After working for Nixon, Egeberg took a professorial chair at Georgetown

University. In his later career, he advocated for the advanced training of

doctors in geriatric medicine. From 1969 to 1971, Egeberg was the Assistant Secretary for health and

scientific affairs in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. In this

role, he was an advocate for expanding public health care and argued for the financing of medical

programs (through the Office of Health Care Financing). During this time,

Egeberg visited the USSR and

developed a professional relationship with Boris Vasilevich Petrovsky, the

Soviet minister of health.[4] In

the spring of 1970, while requesting $100 million to train more doctors and

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