On Caring for the Patient with Cancer

3/29/2017

much longer. If there is not sufficient time, the physician must find it at the earliest possible … and the greater his responsibilities, the more determined he is to find out exactly how long he has to live. I …

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Youth in Protest — Overtones for Medicine

3/29/2017

unrest soon find themselves affected by strong peer-group pressures pushing them toward dissent. Most … of real examination of the problems and their solutions. In line with a current tendency to find some vast … of the medical profession is to find a way of directing the vast discontent of young people, and particularly …

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Medical Aims and Ideals

3/29/2017

remedies. What doctor has not thrilled with elation to find that he can reverse a disease, that he can …

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At the Bedside

3/29/2017

of the bedside approach as the surest and most reliable procedure for first finding out what ails the patient …, it is not surprising to find that neurosurgery in Boston followed in the wake, with Harvey Cushing as the leader … review of the natural history, physical alterations, laboratory studies, operative findings …

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The Involuntary Plight of the Voluntary Hospital

3/28/2017

almost to the point of diminishing returns. At the same time, hospitals are finding it necessary … and clinics with little knowledge of and no regard for the operation of others." Voluntary hospitals, finding … they find these suggestions helpful! New Era in Hospital-Physician Relations In June, 1950, the House …

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

3/28/2017

help and guidance; the Department wants to join them in finding practical answers to their most elusive … questions. Solutions and Proposals To find solutions to these pressing problems, it is necessary to develop … find ourselves. If it is true that we have too frequently insisted that functions must adjust …

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Docendo Discimus

3/28/2017

enough, I could find no previous oration with a title in either Latin or Greek, although the leading … they state their findings and conclusions and make recommendations, but it is still quite apparent that all … to the hospital, take an x-ray film and find that only size-5 shot were in his vital parts! The moral was that "We …

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Genes, the Heart and Destiny

3/28/2017

, with autopsy findings of patent ductus arteriosus, aortic coarctation and Ebstein's anomaly. In the other … devastating epidemic of coronary thrombosis, we should not expect to find one program equally suited to all …

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Reflections on the Challenge to the Medical Profession in India

3/28/2017

in the rural areas of India is not solely a product of the small land holdings but also finds origin in the low … per cent from iron-deficiency anemia is a common finding in patients in Queen Mary's Hospital … is not paid for advice given in his office but is not expected to supply medicine. He finds his living …

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The Role of Diagnostic Roentgenology in Medicine

3/28/2017

the findings in a patient with tuberculosis. He was the first physician to show x-rays at a national medical … it reveals a lesion and establishes its nature. Negative or inconclusive findings in the presence … by the clinical findings. Functional disturbances often simulate organic conditions, and x-ray examination may …

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