Medal Winners: How the Vietnam War Launched Nobel Careers
Doctors graduating medical school during the Vietnam War had several options. Most went to serve medically in the war theater. A few went into other smaller niches like the Public Health Service. A select few were drafted into a program to train in research at the NIH; these were subsequently known as “yellow berets” – an epithet turned point-of-pride among its recipients. Over the years, those who trained in this Clinical Associates program ended up…
