a doctor that was in good standing with the Better Business Bureau. After they uncovered the doctor's lie, they sent him to Pianosa to act as a flight surgeon. The doctor hated flying on airplanes. In his own words he said, "I don't have to go looking for trouble in an airplane.". Doc Daneeka felt that trouble comes after him so there is no reason to take any actions that might get him involved in more trouble. This statement reflects one of Doc Daneeka's major characteristics, cowardice. It is ironic that Doc Daneeka was drafted as a flight surgeon since he hated flying. To alleviate this problem Doc Daneeka asks Yossarian to list his name on the flight logs even if he doesn't actually go on the flights. Doc Daneeka never returns the favor because he would not declare Yossarian insane so he doesn't have to fly any more missions and he can go home. However, he knows that Yossarian cannot ask to be declared insane because concern for your own safety is a trait of a sane person. This "favor" that Yossarian does later causes the doctor problems. When a plane crashes, the army lists him as being dead because he was on the flight log. This shows how flying is just another way that the war adversely affected the doctor. One of the many horrible conditions the doctor was subjected to during the war was his bunkmate and his two medical assistants. Chief White Halfoat lived with Doc Daneeka, and the doctor hated every second of it. He believed the Chief was a moron because he felt that if he kept on digging he would hit oil. The doctor was also preoccupied, for no apparent reason, with thoughts of what the Chief's liver would look like. Besides the Chief and probably even worse than him were the doctor's two assistants, Gus and Wes. They were worthless medical assistants who were horrible diagnosticians. All the doctor ever wanted from them was to find something, anything wrong with him that would make him eligible to be sent home. They were co...
