At the Bedside

3/29/2017

of the computer is an example. Accepting change while preserving culture is a way of life today that influences …, a sick man at one end of it and a doctor at the other! The doctor has to be within thirty inches of his … of students might proceed. Dalton noted that: It is a universal conviction that animal life is properly …

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The Involuntary Plight of the Voluntary Hospital

3/28/2017

of existing facilities. It has been pointed out that the elimination of week ends and holidays would increase … (August 24, 1954) took note of one ingenious attempt to solve this problem of the "lost week end … is the outlook for the voluntary hospital. In The Hospital in Contemporary Life (1949) Dr. Nathaniel W. Faxon …

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

3/28/2017

communicable diseases. It must have been a frustrating and bitter period in the life of Dr. Bowditch. Eleven … and other health hazards in his district. In 1914 the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company showed … of community life in a way never imagined by our forefathers when this nation was born. Government …

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Docendo Discimus

3/28/2017

. Between them, they cover the field thoroughly and in a logical manner. At the end of each chapter … in spite of limited facilities and inadequate teaching. On the other hand, a poor student may end up … particularly since the end of World War I, the advances in medicine and its allied fields have been phenomenal …

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Genes, the Heart and Destiny

3/28/2017

of the first act of William Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well. This is my text, much easier for us … the same Shakespeare put into Hamlet's mouth the oft quoted lines: There's a divinity that shapes our ends … the maintenance of health, the induction of disease and the length of life in mankind as a whole but with very …

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Small Puddles

3/28/2017

that metropolitan centers seem to exert a strong attraction for numbers of individuals in all walks of life … the tragic accident of serving a life term in the Tower of London instead of in the Bulfinch Building … considerations are not paramount in such studies, nor, in fact, in the full enjoyment of life when viewed …

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Gastric Surgery

3/28/2017

the question of hiatus hernia and, together with hiatus hernia, peptic ulcer of the lower end of the esophagus …. Chamberlain has reported from this clinic the occurrence of 7 peptic ulcers of the lower end of the esophagus … by the congestion in the mucosa as the upper end of the stomach and lower end of the esophagus rub against the edge …

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Small Puddles (PDF)

3/28/2017

of individuals in all walks of life, including the bypaths of medicine. Some of them doubtless take comfort … a pleasing stroke of notoriety by what a narrow margin he avoided the tragic accident of serving a life term …, in fact, in the full enjoyment of life when viewed with understanding. Lin Yutang,2 for exam- ple …

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Medical Care in Our Free Society

3/28/2017

necessities and privileges of our daily life. As one might expect, most of the increasing costs … care of high quality is the end product of combined and well co-ordinated efforts. It has as its …

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The Education of the Public in Medical Matters (PDF)

3/27/2017

of life. Never- theless people in general did not recognize the need of reform, and the law which … as to the actual state of affairs. Ask any individual if he wishes to entrust the health and life of the members … of life to maintain health, should be an important aim in everybody's education. This study of hygiene …

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