The Reflections of a Physician Who Stayed at Home

10/28/2016

, with an admiration tinged with envy, the splendid work done by the members of our profession in uniform. He applauded … sons of Massachusetts have ever done in the hour of need. As a result of their efforts and those …

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Military Medicine: A Means to Perpetuate Its Teaching in Massachusetts (pdf)

10/20/2016

not to be exposed to the dangers and chances of war. Some conception of the amount of work done by the medical … this is done." An unbroken line of leading statesmen and soldiers, from Washington to General Leonard Wood … doned." Before the Crimean War, England, like ihe United States today, had but one chair in mili- …

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MACRA: QPP Final Rule (pdf)

10/20/2016

assessment to be done at either the individual or group level. Physicians must choose to report …

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The Sanctity of Medicine

10/19/2016

, and a foundation for scientific medicine was thus laid. So well was this work done that its central figure has ever … that the laboratory has its limitations. Science has done much in revealing the mysteries of nature, but it should lie …' tractors, Christian Science or suggestion. This is what the physician from time immemorial has done …

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The Blood in Surgery - A Historical and Critical Study

10/19/2016

. His work was done mainly in the anatomical theatre, and was concerned but indirectly … of the donee. We are now approaching so vast, so intricate and so fascinating a theme that one may not properly …

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The Present Position and Value of the Exploratory or Operative Diagnosis

10/19/2016

that under similar circumstances we feel greater uncertainty than we did before, and whatever we have done …

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The Blood in Surgery - A Historical and Critical Study (pdf)

10/19/2016

the teachings of Galen. His work was done mainly in the anatomical theatre, and was concerned but indirectly … the arterial system of the donor to the venous system of the donee. We are now approaching so vast, so …

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Dyspepsia and Indigestion Viewed from a Surgical Standpoint

10/19/2016

in the absence of a gross lesion is guilty of meddlesome surgery. Can anything be done for these unhappy …

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Dyspepsia and Indigestion Viewed from a Surgical Standpoint (pdf)

10/19/2016

to their digestive troubles ¡done is in order. Just as in our appendix cases, to be considered later, the terms … an artificial opening in the absence of a gross lesion is guilty of meddlesome surgery. Can anything be done … as good as the average, or what could be done to make them better. An attempt wasmade to trace the cases …

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Some Abuses in Surgical Practice

10/19/2016

, "that chloroform has done a lot of harm, it has enabled every fool to become a surgeon,” has become … there was no demonstrable lesion at all. When he concludes that "this over-zealousness in appendectomy has practically done … little harm," I cannot follow him. Of course it has done, and can do, little harm in his hands, because …

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