Swinging Copy and Sober Science

3/29/2017

. The title of the Annual Address delivered before the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1860 was "Currents … and Counter-Currents in Medical Science." This sounds innocent enough. Yet some sensibilities must have been chafed … for orators who declared themselves for subjects no less sacrosanct than good education and ethical medical …

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The Physician in a Changing Social Structure

3/29/2017

the Committee on Advanced Clinical Education (ACE), of the Massachusetts Medical Society, together with the PMI …–66. We are in the midst of a reformation with respect to medical care and with it the concept … of the essential relation of medical education to the delivery of the best care. This movement began early …

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Medical Education and the University (1901–1968)

3/29/2017

the control of universities. The enormous increase in medical knowledge and the advances in patient care … of advances in both high-school and college education, which should permit medical schools to increase … to centers for advanced learning is in the expansion of their medical libraries. In 1900 most medical schools …

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Thoughts on Future Contributions of Virology to Medicine

3/29/2017

equipment is capable of directing the synthesis not only of more of itself but of viral protein as well … that in the future virology will contribute to medical practice largely through the exploitation and extension … have the capacity to inhibit or destroy virus. Furthermore, there is a certain amount of direct …

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

3/29/2017

elements separate physician and patient. Advances in medical diagnosis and therapy require postgraduate …The Dollars and Sense of Medical Care and Health Services: Relation … publicly disavowed by the Massachusetts Medical Society of his day. So much for the opportunity accorded …

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The Subphrenic Spaces and the Emperor's New Robes

3/29/2017

what was obviously an abiding medical or surgical passion, and the resulting discourse … wonder what we could do to teach this to those beginning their medical careers? I wonder how we could … for the hidden untruth." Indeed, this might be advanced as an axiom in our context of subphrenic anatomy …

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Youth in Protest — Overtones for Medicine

3/29/2017

of the medical profession is to find a way of directing the vast discontent of young people, and particularly … the ultimate direction of their actions will be. But Dean Franklin Ford, of Harvard University, expressed his … as a response to the basic belief that human needs must not be subordinated to technologic advances or corporate …

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Organ Replacement, Facial Deformity, and Plastic Surgery

3/29/2017

, in 1951, the Medical Service under Dr. G W. Thorn had developed a strong interest in hypertension … circumstances. By 1954, I had studied in the Surgical Research Laboratory at Harvard Medical School a number … and two surgical resections, was referred to the late Dr. Donald Matson, of Harvard Medical School …

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At the Bedside

3/29/2017

is primarily concerned with the advancement of medical science, whether in the laboratory or at the bedside … of the medical community. By their maximum exploitation of wisdom and skill, they have cured the sick suffering … possible only through advances in scientific research in the field, in the clinic or in the laboratory …

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The Involuntary Plight of the Voluntary Hospital

3/28/2017

or on the golf course. Various methods were recommended by which the medical staff could have "free and direct … at their own expense." It is significant that when Dr. Thomas Bond was appointed to the medical staff, he … and Boston itself is a renowned medical center, it is not surprising that half the hospitals and two thirds …

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