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Health Care

A physician examining children in Alaska near totem poles  Since 1955, the Indian Health Service has been a part of the Public Health Service. But even earlier PHS helped provide health care to American Indians and Alaskan Natives. Here, PHS physician Ralph Carr examines children in Alaska during 1941.
 
Dentists working on several men's teeth  Dental clinic of the New Orleans Marine Hospital of the PHS during the 1930s.
 
Senior Assistant Surgeon Nancy Campbell of the PHS examines a Cuban man  Senior Assistant Surgeon Nancy Campbell of the PHS examines a refugee from Cuba who arrived in the United States in the Mariel Boatlift of 1980.
 
A National Health Service Corps recruitment poster  A recruitment poster for the National Health Service Corps, a PHS program that sends health professionals to areas that are medically underserved, 1970s.

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