A National Blood Program for the United States

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Abstract
It is a sincere pleasure to dedicate this work, which deals with current efforts to organize a national blood program in the United States, to Lawrence E. Young, MD. He has made major contributions to the scientific basis of modern blood transfusion practice. He also has been deeply interested in the issues of organization for health care provision. It is hoped this report will illustrate some of the general problems we encounter when we try to use our wealth of knowledge in its ultimate application—improved, more efficient, more available, more effective health care for our people. The current state of scientific affairs in the field of blood transfusion obviously cannot be reviewed here. The basic facts are well recorded in many places now and are reasonably widely if not universally known. Physicians traditionally have not been very interested in where the blood they so freely use comes from or how

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