Dr. Virginia T. Latham receives Presidential Citation from the Massachusetts Medical Society

12/2/2016

society in so many ways with the utmost grace, humility, and distinction,” said Dr. Gessner in presenting …

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2016 Interim Meeting: President's Report

12/2/2016

at the center of his deliberations. “CMS has lost the hearts and minds of America’s doctors,” Mr. Slavitt said …

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MMS Presidential Citation Awarded to Virginia T. Latham, M.D.

12/2/2016

.  And she talked about being a physician. Here is what she said: “You are going to have the joy …

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Vital Signs December 2016-January 2017 (pdf)

12/1/2016

at MMS Head- quarters in Waltham. U.S. Senator Edward J. Markey said in his keynote address, “If we ….” “Fentanyl is like a Class 5 hurri- cane making landfall,” Sen. Mar- key said. “It is the Godzilla of opi- … socie- tal impact,” Sen. Markey said, “similar to when the former sur- geon general years ago released …

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The Appreciation of Medical Politicians

11/16/2016

that he had no urge to show himself in public, and no desire to dominate others. But what he really said …," said the admiral, "You know that. Look at this ship. Everyone aboard thinks he's a hero because he …

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Medicine and the Doctor in Word and Epigram

11/16/2016

of medicine has become learned and must impart his learning. Dr. Johnson, in 1775, said "The term doctor …. In the slang of the gay '90's we went citified and said off the trolley instead of off the furrow. In almost … by drinking Jake, a Jamaica-ginger extract. As I said before, our English language is never static. Our …

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The New England Journal of Medicine and the Massachusetts Medical Society

11/16/2016

in the said publication." As Burrage points out in his history of the Society, "We are justified in assuming …

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

11/14/2016

young—almost as young as are today's veterans of the Great War. “There are those here present [said … twenty-eight, provided the yeast in the dough. "An artful man," said a contemporary, "certain to get … be the dreadful thing others had said it would be. James Jackson is now, in 1831, nearing the end of his …

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Some Responsibilities of Medical Education

11/14/2016

, we encounter the theme of this address, if it can be said to have one. That theme is as follows … was grand," Said Mr. McNally to Mr. Rand, "When our toughest job was to sit and think Shall France be purple …," said Rand to Mr. McNally, "Was before Benito got rough with Hallie, When we didn't fret about changing …

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The Practitioner's Need of an Intelligent Skepticism

11/14/2016

. Immediately came the answer, "brain tumor". "Why?" said the instructor. "The patient has no teeth" was his … said of nephritis also applies to the various vascular lesions and their results, to cardiac disease …

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