The New Medical-Industrial Complex

3/29/2017

and the virtual disappearance of physicians able and willing to make house calls, the local hospital emergency … that they are willing to pay. But if physicians are to represent their patients' interests in the new medical … and therefore open to control. Patients understand fee-for-service and most are willing to assume …

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Trends in Medical Education

3/29/2017

areas, some become public-health officers, and others spend their lives in the laboratory devoted … of participation in continuing care for all or a good part of their lives. The development of pathology … and curves drawn on graph paper; when the emotional problems of living confront us on all sides, we turn …

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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 … Medicare-Medicaid programs expand and eventually culminate, as most believe they will, in some form of national …

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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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On Caring for the Patient with Cancer

3/29/2017

steps from "the living will" to "death control," to "thought control" and finally to the systematic … that support of an innocent but quite unnecessary "living will" does not pave the way for us … World. Quite apart from the dangers of euthanasia I deplore the concept of "the living will …

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Youth in Protest — Overtones for Medicine

3/29/2017

in recent years — that is, since 1900 — in which so many young people were willing, even eager, to condemn … 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 …

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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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Genes, the Heart and Destiny

3/28/2017

, Rough-hew them how we will. In the paganism of ancient days the "fates" held sway, as in the case … lives are chains of chances." Here we are not told the fate of the chances, but surely their fate must …. We may or may not accept them. The course of our lives depends on the combination of these chances …

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The Role of Diagnostic Roentgenology in Medicine

3/28/2017

procedure and has saved many lives. Limitations Roentgenography has clearly defined limitations … are willing to accept the consequences unless adequately prepared and competent. The harmful potentialities …

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Gastric Surgery

3/28/2017

is benign and which lesion is malignant, I should personally be willing to continue with this program … universal establishment of the position that I am now willing to take, namely, that all patients … no mortality in this group of cases. Total Gastrectomy Our oldest living patient on whom total gastrectomy …

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