California's Imperial Valley teems with migrant farm workers who are often unemployed and often sick. Largely for such workers and their children, Imperial County runs a $155,000-a-year public health service. To head it, the board of supervisors last summer hired a man with top qualifications: Paul Francis O'Rourke, 36, who got through Harvard Medical School at 24 and quit private practice in 1959 to take a year's course in public health at the University of California.
His public health job suited Dr. O'Rourke. Organized medicine, he thinks, often closes its eyes to public needs;...
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