Swinging Copy and Sober Science

3/29/2017

practice. "The truth," said the Orator of 1860, "is that medicine, professedly founded on observation …

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Don't Eat the Quails

3/29/2017

there met him ten lepers, which stood afar off:...And when he saw them he said... Go shew yourselves unto …, turned back... And Jesus... said, Were there not ten cleansed?... where are the nine? Arise, go thy way … barbiturates, it permits one to awaken refurbished for another day. Much more could be said about …

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The Physician in a Changing Social Structure

3/29/2017

. To close, I quote the words of a dedicated modern educator, Jaime Benitez, who said, in his commencement …

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The Crisis in Ethics, Anno Domini 1979

3/29/2017

said something like this: "These principles are not laws but standards designed to delineate honorable …

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Risk and Responsibility — A Physician's Viewpoint

3/29/2017

, when I quoted him the size of the bill sent by a colleague of both of us. "Oh" said Dr. Aub, "he has … States boast to the patient and ourselves. Finally, what has been said here? What is its intent …

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

3/29/2017

. Such is the principal law of our age, the age of Technique. "Since it was possible, it was necessary," said Jacques …

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The Subphrenic Spaces and the Emperor's New Robes

3/29/2017

about for a theme and a title for my remarks. I have often said that if I had to preach a lay sermon I … from seeing too much. "Experience," said Osier, "consists not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely." I … children's tale as an obbligato. "Beauty," said the sage of Athens, "is the splendor of truth." Each …

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On Caring for the Patient with Cancer

3/29/2017

I heard and even myself said, "I am sorry, I can do nothing more for you." It was an easy out … have repeatedly had prominent executives complain that I was trying to mislead them when I said I … in which the dying person has said, "Don't be sad. It is about time and I am ready for it." Primitive …

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Youth in Protest — Overtones for Medicine

3/29/2017

and opinions of many people. Robert Frost once said that a central problem of many of the underdeveloped …, especially when the effects of the drug on judgment are considered. As I have said elsewhere, members … Paul Freund has said, "The trouble in fighting hypocrisies is that righteousness about ends soon …

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Medical Aims and Ideals

3/29/2017

their private interests are subordinated. In this sense, it might be said that all mankind are jointly engaged … and spiritual standards. What then shall be said of medicine? Are its aims confined to the treatment of people's …, it may be said that they have created and thus far maintained the finest medical care ever conceived …

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