Trends in Medical Education

3/29/2017

of medical knowledge is often a potent factor. In talking about their plans, fourth-year students have said …

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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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