Presidential Physician: T. Burton Smith

• Ronald Reagan:
  · Before presidency: operating surgeon
  · During presidency: primary physician

• Smith, a urologist, performed a transurethral resection of Reagan's prostate in 1967 and was physician to the President during the first part of Reagan's second term [Beahrs].

• Altman, Lawrence K. Reagan vows to resign if doctor in White House finds him unfit. New York Times. 11 June 1980; A1, A28
• Beahrs, Oliver H. The medical history of President Ronald Reagan. J Am Coll Surg. 1994;178:86-96.