Lengthening Shadows

3/29/2017

was tabled for the sake of harmony at the centennial meeting, although Bowditch said that he did not know … in the affirmative. Shattuck said that God did not give them an organization adapted to the practice of medicine … to the welfare of the Index and said that one individual physician in Boston alone contributed half the sum …

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The New Medical-Industrial Complex

3/29/2017

have more efficient management and use fewer employees per bed. It is also said that fewer …. The largest corporate provider of home care is said to be the Upjohn Company. About half the total cost … of the health-care market and said that the only major risk to investors was the threat of greater government control …

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Trends in Medical Education

3/29/2017

of medical knowledge is often a potent factor. In talking about their plans, fourth-year students have said …

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Swinging Copy and Sober Science

3/29/2017

practice. "The truth," said the Orator of 1860, "is that medicine, professedly founded on observation …

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Don't Eat the Quails

3/29/2017

there met him ten lepers, which stood afar off:...And when he saw them he said... Go shew yourselves unto …, turned back... And Jesus... said, Were there not ten cleansed?... where are the nine? Arise, go thy way … barbiturates, it permits one to awaken refurbished for another day. Much more could be said about …

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The Physician in a Changing Social Structure

3/29/2017

. To close, I quote the words of a dedicated modern educator, Jaime Benitez, who said, in his commencement …

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The Crisis in Ethics, Anno Domini 1979

3/29/2017

said something like this: "These principles are not laws but standards designed to delineate honorable …

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Risk and Responsibility — A Physician's Viewpoint

3/29/2017

, when I quoted him the size of the bill sent by a colleague of both of us. "Oh" said Dr. Aub, "he has … States boast to the patient and ourselves. Finally, what has been said here? What is its intent …

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

3/29/2017

. Such is the principal law of our age, the age of Technique. "Since it was possible, it was necessary," said Jacques …

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The Subphrenic Spaces and the Emperor's New Robes

3/29/2017

about for a theme and a title for my remarks. I have often said that if I had to preach a lay sermon I … from seeing too much. "Experience," said Osier, "consists not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely." I … children's tale as an obbligato. "Beauty," said the sage of Athens, "is the splendor of truth." Each …

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