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The Office of Attending Physician (OAP) was established by congressional resolution in 1928 to meet the medical needs of Members of Congress. [1] The OAP began serving the medical needs of the U.S. House of Representatives in 1929 and the following year, in 1930, began serving the U.S. Senate.
Brian Patrick Monahan [1] (born 1960) is the Attending Physician of the United States Congress and the United States Supreme Court and holds the rank of rear admiral in the United States Navy. Monahan was nominated to the position and rank by United States President Barack Obama in January 2009. [2]
Some members of Congress and press reports include these two suicides in the number of casualties, for a total of seven deaths. [8] Dr. Jonathan Arden, the former Chief Medical Examiner of the District of Columbia was hired by Smith's widow as part of her lawsuit to have her husband's suicide ruled "in the line of duty". His report stated that ...
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From expanded health care access to reducing suicide rates, veterans groups are preparing to lobby the 119th Congress on a host of issues affecting retired service members. Veterans groups are ...
Before he was elected to Congress, Jackson was known for his effusive assessments of Trump's health as White House physician. “He has incredibly good genes, and it’s just the way God made him ...
The number of physicians serving and running for Congress has risen over the last 50 years from 5 in 1960, down to 3 in 1970 and a low of 2 in 1990 up to 10 (in 2000) [3] to a maximum of 21, including one female physician, in 2013, [4] as of 2015, there were 18, and as of 2017 a small decrease to 15 physicians. [5]
In the United States of America, an estimated 300 to 400 doctors die by suicide each year, a rate of 28 to 40 per 100,000 or more than double that of general population. [5] 9% of American male physicians and 11% of American female physicians reported having suicidal thoughts in Medscape's Physician Suicide Report 2023. [6]