Fitzhugh Mullan

These events are captured in his memoir about the period, White Coat, Clenched Fist: The Political Education of an American Physician.

He later returned to New Mexico and served as Secretary of Health and Environment for Governor Toney Anaya, worked for Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, ran the Federal Bureau of Health Professions, and attained the rank of Assistant Surgeon General.

In 1989, he published Plagues and Politics: The Story of the United States Public Health Service, a volume still used to orient new officers to the Commissioned Corps of the USPHS.

Mullan wrote the first column himself, entitled "Me and the System,"[7] and he edited a 2006 anthology, Narrative Matters: The Power of the Personal Essay in Health Policy.

He worked with Vanessa Kerry to create SEED Global Health, of which he served as the founding board chair, 2011–12.

He chronicled his experience with surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation in the book, Vital Signs: A Young Doctor's Struggle with Cancer, which was published in 1983.