On Caring for the Patient with Cancer

3/29/2017

I heard and even myself said, "I am sorry, I can do nothing more for you." It was an easy out … have repeatedly had prominent executives complain that I was trying to mislead them when I said I … in which the dying person has said, "Don't be sad. It is about time and I am ready for it." Primitive …

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Youth in Protest — Overtones for Medicine

3/29/2017

and opinions of many people. Robert Frost once said that a central problem of many of the underdeveloped …, especially when the effects of the drug on judgment are considered. As I have said elsewhere, members … Paul Freund has said, "The trouble in fighting hypocrisies is that righteousness about ends soon …

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Medical Aims and Ideals

3/29/2017

their private interests are subordinated. In this sense, it might be said that all mankind are jointly engaged … and spiritual standards. What then shall be said of medicine? Are its aims confined to the treatment of people's …, it may be said that they have created and thus far maintained the finest medical care ever conceived …

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At the Bedside

3/29/2017

was low. "You are right," they said to him. "The pay is low. But consider: the work is steady …

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The Involuntary Plight of the Voluntary Hospital

3/28/2017

hospital capacity by about a third. Virtually the same thing was said by the president of the American … has said so well, "Medicine belongs to the people. We are merely its purveyors." Since the voluntary …

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

3/28/2017

practitioners to explain their apparent aloofness from public-health activities: it is said that they have …. Closer to home, in discussing the merits of a home care program, a recent president of this society said …

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Docendo Discimus

3/28/2017

have said before, the curriculum is like a football, constantly in motion, forward and back, now … of "healthy scepticism" in all work but particularly in reading and in teaching. He said, however, in caution … and discomfiture he did not percuss or auscultate the heart, but simply said, "If she has a constrictive …

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Genes, the Heart and Destiny

3/28/2017

oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven. So said Helena in a soliloquy in the first scene …

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Reflections on the Challenge to the Medical Profession in India

3/28/2017

Gandhi was not referring to literacy or education when he said, "If the village perishes India …, and doctors may go to villages and towns," he said, but asked "if the cost of treatment is beyond … political ears. As a general practitioner in a small city said, the villager is demanding everything …

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Small Puddles

3/28/2017

financial rewards that are said to accrue in the more ambitious puddles. After thirty years … Moroea, who is said to have thrashed her daughter, spoiled her son and urged her husband to quit meddling …

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