LITTLE ROCK Dr. Joseph Bates, a physician and Arkansas Department of Health official who transformed tuberculosis treatment with pioneering outpatient therapies, allowing patients to avoid the sanatorium, and subsequently helped establish the state s first independent public health college at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, died on Friday from colon cancer in Little Rock. He was 90.
Dr. Joseph Bates, a physician and Arkansas Department of Health official who transformed tuberculosis treatment with pioneering outpatient therapies, allowing patients to avoid the sanatorium, and subsequently helped establish the state s first independent public health college at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, died on Friday from colon cancer in Little Rock. He was 90.
Dr. Joseph Bates, a physician and Arkansas Department of Health official who transformed tuberculosis treatment with pioneering outpatient therapies, allowing patients to avoid the sanatorium, and subsequently helped establish the state s first independent public health college at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, died on Friday from colon cancer in Little Rock. He was 90.