How Specialized Is a Specialty?

11/15/2016

can look forward to nothing better than to put an end to his own misery and the financial … and therapy must, if necessary, be rendered to such a patient throughout his life. In 21 of the same … necessary to meet these legal requirements. These estimates have been based on life expectancy, surgical …

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One Hundred and Fifty Years — From Tallow-Dip to Television

11/14/2016

growing up is at loose ends and the generation suddenly grown old distraught for want of some constructive … years of turmoil and uncertainty had already passed and the end was not yet in sight (far less … be the dreadful thing others had said it would be. James Jackson is now, in 1831, nearing the end of his …

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Some Responsibilities of Medical Education

11/14/2016

that did not contribute to these specific and limited ends. The organizers of these training programs were … rapid change of modern life. It is entitled "I Wonder What Became of Rand, McNally," and the most … irregular, since he left the school before the end of his final year to take an excellent hospital post …

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The Practitioner's Need of an Intelligent Skepticism

11/14/2016

in the quotation graven in translated form on one of the buildings of the Harvard Medical School, “life is short … observation tells us that any enema is a high enema, for the colon fills quickly from end to end with greatest …, especially in those beyond the forty year period of life. Even a chronic disease of known infectious origin …

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One Hundred and Fifty Years — From Tallow-Dip to Television (PDF)

11/14/2016

of reconstruction during which the generation growing up is at loose ends and the generation suddenly grown old dis- … and the end was not yet in sight (far less the ratification of peace) when at the instigation of fourteen … thing others had said it would be. James Jackson is now, in 1831, nearing the end of his seven-year …

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New England, Neurosurgery and the Neurosurgeon

11/14/2016

that this was a new country and that life was cheap and the way of life was hard. They were pioneers and they cut out … element, donned the blue and buff of the colonial forces. The doctor's life was a hard one. He stood … community developed our own trends in medicine. That word "pioneer" means much in American life. We can …

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The Medical Society and Maternal Mortality

11/14/2016

the destruction of the life within her, then the problem becomes more social and moral than medical. That deaths … education, to the end that the gross ignorance still so prevalent may be mitigated at least, since it cannot … intern; and, thirdly, standardization of qualifications for specialists in obstetrics to the end …

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The Interdependence of Tropical Medicine and General Medicine

11/14/2016

prizes to win, humanitarian ends to serve, and seductive problems which pique their scientific curiosity … not have occurred and the battles with disease in the tropics could have been won with little loss of life … large and the end is not yet. What has been said of malaria is true in lesser degree of dysentery …

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The Medical Society and Maternal Mortality (PDF)

11/14/2016

the de- struction of the life within her, then the prob- lem becomes more social and moral than medi- cal … in the program in health education, to the end that the gross ig- norance still so prevalent may be mitigated … of qualifica- tions for specialists in obstetrics to the end that the unfit and the specialist by proclamation …

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Medicine's Responsibility in the Propagation of Poor Protoplasm

11/14/2016

. For example, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company reports that the cancer death rate for insured groups … arising after the second 25 years of life may be predestined by factors to which the body was exposed … to be extending man's span of life will depend somewhat on our point of view. The pediatrician will point …

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