James Young (physician)
James Morningstar Young (October 28, 1929 – June 4, 2008)[1] was an American White House physician for presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
Born in
LA Rams, in California and opted to continue onto Duke University School of Medicine
where he obtained his Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree.
Young was on active duty with the
U.S. Navy for twenty years between 1955 and 1975. He served as medical director aboard the USS Northampton, where he met president John F. Kennedy
for the first time. A couple of months after meeting President Kennedy, Young was asked to become the President's personal physician. Following the acceptance of the President's request, he was promoted to the rank of captain in the Navy.
Young only cared for the Kennedy family for several months before the president was
Jackie Kennedy
at Camp David for 10 additional days- yet he never shared details from that time. He continued to remain in the White House as physician during President Johnson's term. He assisted with diagnosing LBJ with a poorly functioning gall bladder with stones; Johnson underwent surgery to remove his gall bladder in 1965. Dr. Young requested to transfer out of the White House in 1966.
Young was vice president and medical director of Massachusetts Blue Cross for 12 years. He assisted with drafting of the
Twenty-Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. He was a guest lecturer at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He also contributed to the book Managing Crisis: Presidential Disability and the Twenty-Fifth Amendment and appeared on the CNN
special White House Doctors: The President's Shadow.
Young died on June 4, 2008, due to complications following a stroke he suffered in May the same year.
References
- Gilbert, R. E. (2000). Managing crisis: Presidential disability and the twenty-fifth amendment. New York: Fordham University Press.
- The National Children, Book, Alliance, L., & McCullough, D. (2008). Our white house: Looking in, looking out. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, U.S.
- ^ "James M Young". Retrieved June 22, 2020.
External links
- What Price a Rose?
- Notes on JFK's Skull Fragments
- Obituary
- Boston Globe - Obituary
- Ohio
- LBJ Surgery
- LBJ Surgery II
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