2016 Interim Meeting: President's Report

12/2/2016

for both physicians and patients, and I would like to share with you what we have done on some key issues …

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The New England Journal of Medicine and the Massachusetts Medical Society

11/16/2016

, only good rewriting, — that what is worth setting down at all can be done twice as well in half … drives hither and thither, now furiously commanding this thing to be done, now that. What is he that he …

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How Specialized Is a Specialty?

11/15/2016

for the great honor you have done me by enrolling me among the pre-eminent members of the profession who have … with the public. Moreover, they set the standard and are responsible for the kind of neurosurgery that is done … be done with the equipment and by the staff of a neurosurgical unit in a large general hospital. That done …

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

11/14/2016

these lectures were worth the labour and time had they done nothing more than turn toward Medicine the thoughts … to be done with speed and dexterity for which a precise knowledge of human anatomy was essential … who was ahead of his time and either did not realize the full significance of what he had done …

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Some Responsibilities of Medical Education

11/14/2016

house officers in the hospitals in which Harvard Medical School teaching is done, and also those who …

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The Practitioner's Need of an Intelligent Skepticism

11/14/2016

. He realized that much could be done by the physician to mitigate the discomforts of the patient … what had been done by way of treatment. Just such skepticism, still, is greatly needed by the medical … possess, instead of carrying out at once some one of the procedures just referred to, as so often is done …

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Some Remarks on Therapy for Anemia (PDF)

11/14/2016

. In this community, Dameshek has recently done a service by calling attention to various types of acquired hemolytic …

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The Trend of Medicine In The Twentieth Century

11/14/2016

some such plan may be worked out. The place where the special nursing is done has changed considerably … should be done at about one year of age and after six months if the Schick test is positive a repetition …

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

11/14/2016

and time had they done nothing more than turn toward Medicine the thoughts of a young undergraduate … standard operations then undertaken had to be done with speed and dexterity for which a precise knowl- edge … the full significance of what he had done or cared not at all. Who possibly can tell how often precious …

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The Medical Society and Maternal Mortality

11/14/2016

Massachusetts is not exempt from this problem. Ultimately something will be done about it and the Medical … and the happier solution of our common problems. In spite of what has been done and what is now being attempted …

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