Ross T. McIntire (1889-1959)Ross T. McIntire was personal physician to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, from 1932 to 1945. During that time, he rose to the rank of Vice Admiral and Surgeon General of the Navy. The widespread presently-held view of Mcintire’s performance in that capacity is as an excellent and competent wartime administrator but as an abject failure as Presidential physician. While the former is undoubtedly correct, the latter could not be farther from the truth.
As a result of intense research which has led to remarkable new insights about the health of Franklin Roosevelt, McIntire emerges not as the incompetent Eye, Ear Nose and Throat Specialist as historians have pictured him, but rather as a masterful head of a dedicated and highly skilled group of physicians, mostly naval officers, who delivered to the President, as well as his close associates, the highest quality of medical care available at the time. Moreover, Admiral McIntire was more than a physician to his most important patient; he was an indispensable close confidante and a member Ross T. McIntire was personal physician to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, from 1932 to 1945. During that time, he rose to the rank of Vice Admiral and Surgeon General of the Navy. The widespread presently-held view of Mcintire’s performance in that capacity is as an excellent and competent wartime administrator but as an abject failure as Presidential physician. While the former is undoubtedly correct, the latter could not be farther from the truth.
As a result of intense research which has led to remarkable new insights about the health of Franklin Roosevelt, McIntire emerges not as the incompetent Eye, Ear Nose and Throat Specialist as historians have pictured him, but rather as a masterful head of a dedicated and highly skilled group of physicians, mostly naval officers, who delivered to the President, as well as his close associates, the highest quality of medical care available at the time. Moreover, Admiral McIntire was more than a physician to his most important patient; he was an indispensable close confidante and a member of the most inner circle of trusted presidential advisors...
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