Dr. James Justice, interview, 2015

• Main Author: Justice, Jim
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: University of Southern California Digital Library (USC.DL) 2018
• Subjects: Sharra, Stanley; Rabeau, Erwin S.; Billing; Indian; tlingit; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.25549/pck-c86-50; http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll86/id/50

Dr. James Justice (Director of Health Training, Peace Corps Korea, cohort K-4) discusses healthcare issues in South Korea in the 1960s when he was a Peace Corps Korea doctor. This interview conducted by Liz Maxfield was recorded at a Peace Corps Korea reunion, Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, 2015. Topics include: tuberculosis, family planning program for the poor, training health volunteers (University of Washington, Seattle), Stanley Sharra[?] (Peace Corps Medical Director), the Indian Health Service (in the U.S. under Erwin S. Rabeau), epidemics (polio, measles, mumps) in the Marshall Islands, cardiovascular problems and tuberculosis in Alaska, recruiting healthcare workers in maternal and child health, diabetes in South Korea (lack of blood sugar testing), Native American diabetes in Arizona (Phoenix) and New Mexico, arthritis in the Tlingit tribe (Alaska), billing for drugs, and Justice's education, training and background.