Daniel Ruge

A medical doctor, Ruge had a distinguished career specializing in spinal injuries. When he was 63 years old, President Ronald Reagan asked him to be his personal physician. Ruge accepted the job, but he didn't like the protocols that were in place to treat the president in case of emergency. So he changed them. For instance, he ordered that in an emergency the president should be taken to the closest hospital, not necessarily a secure facility that may be further away. Just two months into his presidency, Reagan was shot. "The framework of procedures [Dr. Ruge] put in place were crucial to the fact [Reagan] survived" the assassination attempt, says Harold Wilde, the president of North Central College in Naperville, Ill., where Ruge went to college. "Dan used to tell the story that out of the five presidents that were shot in office, only one lived" -- Reagan. Ruge died August 29 at his home in Denver, Colo. He was 88. From This is True for 28 August 2005 Suggestions for further reading: Trail Fever: Spin Doctors, Rented Strangers, Thumb Wrestlers, Toe Suckers, gr... by Michael Lewis Amazon Price: Customer Review: i normally like his work. but this was too hard to follow. maybe just dated now. i quit halfway thru   Spinner-in-Chief: How Presidents Sell Their Policies and Themselves (Media an... by Stephen J. Farnsworth Amazon Price: $24.95   White House Doctor: Behind the Scenes with the Clinton and Bush Families by Connie Mariano Amazon Price: $17.15   Vol. 128, No. 6, National Geographic Magazine, December 1965; Finisterre Sail... by Carleton; Parks, Winfield; MacLeish, Kenneth; Stewart, B. Anthony; Faulkner, Douglas; Johnson, Lynda Bird; Allard, William Albert; Van Lawick-Goodall, Baroness Jane; Van Lawick, Baron Hugo Mitchell Amazon Price:   President Fu Manchu by Sax Rohmer Amazon Price: Customer Review: In this, the 8th book of 14 in the Fu Manchu series, the good doctor hops "over the pond" and sets his nefarious sights on no less a prize than the conquest of the United States! This book marks yet another departure in the Fu Manchu series: It is th...   Newsfeed display by CaRP

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