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doctor draft  

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  • The Doctor Draft, Public Law 779 of the 81st Congress, amended the Selective Service Act of 1948. Effective September 9, 1950, it authorized a separate draft for physicians for the first time in U.S. history. [Source: Encyclopedia of War & American Society; Doctor Draft]

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