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Medicare Hospital Certification Program Interview: Dr. Paul Plotz, with Judith Plotz

Download the PDF: Plotz_Paul_oral_history_2021_MHCP (175 kB)Medical Committee for Human Rights: Oral History of Dr. Paul Plotz by his wife, Dr. Judith Plotz

GM: Today is March 18, 2021 and I am Gordon Margolin about to talk with Dr. Paul Plotz and his wife, Judith, who has been involved with all of Dr. Plotz's activities for these many years and has agreed to fill in the details to ensure that the memory problems that Dr. Plotz has exhibited won't interfere with our discussion. We already have an oral history on Dr. Plotz in our records. It was done in 2007 by Dr. Alan Schechter and it described Dr. Plotz’s history up to the time he joined NIH in the early 1960s. What we want to review today are the important elements of his activities in the world, partly in the South of the United States and then later in Africa. We’ll hear from JP:  about all of this. I believe, Dr. Plotz, you were a member the Public Health Service [PHS] when you first joined NIH and, as a PHS officer you volunteered to go to the South to work on the desegregation problems of the Black community and medicine. Would you like to tell us, Dr. Judith Plotz, how Dr. Paul Plotz got involved with this and how it all got started?

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