Lengthening Shadows

3/29/2017

from the melting pot. Health The general health of the country was improving. The life expectancy … and Nantucket counties it was 46 years. This improvement in life expectancy was chiefly due to decreased … the end of his career was Oliver Wendell Holmes, the most renowned literary figure of his time …

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Unproved Hypotheses

3/29/2017

abnormality as an indication for surgery is to play Russian roulette with the patient's life. Since … of almost all hypertensive patients and thus, if adopted sufficiently early in life, would prevent … cost of about $150 million and — more importantly — with a loss of life of up to 300 children per year …

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The New Medical-Industrial Complex

3/29/2017

is now a fact of American life. It is still growing and is likely to be with us for a long time. Any … to distort our health-care system to its own entrepreneurial ends. It should not market useless, marginal …

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Trends in Medical Education

3/29/2017

, in the relatively short span of years since the end of World War II, medical science, medical education and medical …, they never will. And to be a good physician today requires that learning continues for life. All schools must … the entire life span of any given person. He should supervise the care of infants, mature adults and old …

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Swinging Copy and Sober Science

3/29/2017

created to sustain or comfort human life. These general accusations have also have been directed … between ends and means. Death-Wish Rejected A pragmatic balancing of ends and means is particularly … channels, might conceivably end up with a net loss for the quality of patient care. The consequences …

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Don't Eat the Quails

3/29/2017

was no ordinary illness. Its onset was too abrupt, and its ending too catastrophic. Should we take the easy course … the canvas of life by returning to the more basic aspects of medicine. Before we exercise ourselves in vast … that the last name in history similarly will be that of some physician, devoting his life to the needs of others …

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The Physician in a Changing Social Structure

3/29/2017

in the several pursuits and professions in life." Likewise, the rights of blacks 100 years after announced … organization of the future. There has been a shift in public policy to the end that the medical profession … a physician must continue to learn and increase his skills during the remainder of his professional life …

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The Effects of Hemorrhage on Body Composition

3/29/2017

concentrations are significantly higher than normal by the end of refill. The concentration increment for other … components so that at the end of the entire period, the normal cell: plasma ratio is restored … concentrations in the blood, catechol end products in the urine or secretory rates, using minor hemorrhage …

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On Caring for the Patient with Cancer

3/29/2017

that she would enjoy it until that happy day when, as had been predicted, her life would end with terminal … the value of life: one the "quality-of-life issue" and the other the "equality-of life issue." In the end he … spread beyond the confines of local control, his contribution was ended. I cannot tell you how many times …

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Youth in Protest — Overtones for Medicine

3/29/2017

of the myriad phenomena that add meaning, quality, dignity, and security to life. To add to the urgency … of recurrent crises, our governments have devised far more effective means of destroying human life … the American Dream and what they see in public and private life. They are in revolt, not against our values …

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