Oral history interview with Roberta Fenlon : oral history transcript / by Gabrielle Morris, for the Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Era Governmental History Project, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley and for the State Government Oral History Program,

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Oral history interview with Roberta Fenlon : oral history transcript / by Gabrielle Morris, for the Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Era Governmental History Project, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley and for the State Government Oral History Program, California State Archives, 1984.

Fenlon, first woman president of the California Medical Association discusses her training in clinical medicine in the 1940s and her many years of activity in public affairs with the San Francisco Medical Society and CMA. Focus is on development of federal Medicaid (1965) and state Medi-Cal (1966) legislation and regulations for health care for the poor and subsequent controversies between the medical profession and the California Department of Health Care Services and its director, Earl Brian, 1970-1974.

[iv], ii, 42 p. ; 29 cm.

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