Looking for my Walter Reed Hospital medical records 1970-1971. My case was published in the Walter Reed Journal.

I tried going to the Army Medical Department Center and School's digital library and search that time frame for "Asmara" or "Nile river parasite," and didn't find anything. Do you remember the doctor's name? I could search the archives of the journal "Military Medicine" for that time period.

Browse - Digital Collections of Stimson Library (oclc.org)

I'll check to see if there was an in-house medical journal at Walter Reed at that time, but I'm not aware of one.

Thanks for trying. I don't remember the Dr. name. The time frame would have been May-Aug 1970. I thought the DR. told me it was a journal at Walter Reed. 

I've been told that the Department of Medicine at Walter Reed had an in-house journal called "Progress Notes" from the late 1960s to the early 1970s. That may have been what he was referring to.

Of course, the Walter Reed Army Medical Center closed in August 2011, and their library holdings were scattered (the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland is not the same hospital). They may be available in the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine, but a preliminary search that I ran didn't turn up anything easily identifiable.

Their digital archives are here: Digital Collections - National Library of Medicine (nih.gov)

Keep in mind that even before the days of the HIPAA privacy provisions, you won't be listed by name, only as, for example, "a 27-year-old male who was assigned to Asmara, Ethiopia."

Good luck.

And, of course, between writing, editing, and peer review, it might not have appeared until some time in 1971.

Lots of issues there for me to review. Thanks again for the great help!

comoulton 

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