Samuel Bard: the first presidential physician
The pillars of the profession: presidential physicians, 1812-1865
The military steps in, part I: the early days, 1823-1865
The military steps in, part II: conflicts and cooperation, 1865-1898
Admiral Presley Rixey: the first authentic White House physician
Captain Joel Boone and the institutionalization of the office of the White House physician
The military keepers of the stethoscope: doctors Cary Grayson, Ross Mcintire, and Howard Snyder
Physician anecdotes: the returnee, the academic, the consultant, and the defendant, 1953-1981
Civilian interlude, part I: medical chaos in Camelot
Civilian interlude, part II: the specialist physicians of presidents Reagan and Bush I
The White House medical unit today
The Twenty-Fifth Amendment and its impact on the White House medical unit
Psychiatry and the presidency
The medical care of vice presidents
Presidential physicians after their tenures
