The Boston City Hospital: A Tale of Three Cities

3/29/2017

, it should particularly serve those who live a short distance from the BCH and look to it as their local …

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The Dollars and Sense of Medical Care and Health Services: Relation

3/29/2017

the perspective of the exurbian, living between circumferential highways, Routes 128 and 495. Although it has … by the company subsidy of disproportionate scales of living, ensuring crippling indebtedness on severance from … for proper procedure, for living up to the expectations an arbitrary authority has established for us …

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The Subphrenic Spaces and the Emperor's New Robes

3/29/2017

forms. Reflection suggests that this could be an incredibly destructive force in our daily lives … undoubtedly saved countless lives. This operation, I am sure, served to keep surgeons out of the peritoneum …

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The Effects of Hemorrhage on Body Composition

3/29/2017

reduction is short lived. The events of the next few days are devoted to a restoration of interstitial-fluid … cell destruction, but the remaining cells live out their normal life-span; the plasma components …

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On Caring for the Patient with Cancer

3/29/2017

earlier were still living, some of them apparently quite well. Among the cases that I reviewed … will be dead in six months" or "I will give him a year to live" is an unforgivable statement for a physician … a fatal form of cancer, and not long to live, asked his doctor to withhold the information from his wife …

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Youth in Protest — Overtones for Medicine

3/29/2017

in making a living or coping with external dangers. But this in no way means that their concerns … institution, but it is the main structural focus of the lives of these protesting young people and a ready … "high-grade medical care," and only a few can get it. Those who live in rural areas and in the urban ghetto …

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Medical Aims and Ideals

3/29/2017

, 'Oh, God, don't let me die; I want to live!' "Before he reached the aid station, he was dead, but his …. "Don't let me die; I want to live." Our activities take on tremendous significance when we view them … every component in the machine for living is functioning perfectly, and without impairment. To restore …

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Organ Replacement, Facial Deformity, and Plastic Surgery

3/29/2017

, in his book, Transplant, the Give and Take of Tissue Transplantation, gives a lively account … unpredictable successes with the use of related living donors. The real impetus to worldwide kidney …. Today, about 75 per cent of living related donor transplants function at two years, with only slight …

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At the Bedside

3/29/2017

and benevolence of an iconic Samaritan. Such men by the conduct of their personal lives, professional performance …, the botanist, the biologist or the bacteriologist. The natural scientist has a tremendous number of living … was as interested in man as in animals. Zinsser lived in a world that to him was filled with lice, rats, sewage …

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The Massachusetts Medical Society and the Organization of Public-Health Services — Retrospect and Prospect

3/28/2017

an era in which our increasing population is living longer and contains a greater proportion of old …

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