The Boston City Hospital: A Tale of Three Cities

3/29/2017

of its 109 years, the public has largely and appropriately identified the BCH with Harvard Medical School … to them, especially the criticism of the practice of prescribing large doses of potent drugs … a relatively large number of medically indigent who were not covered. We appear to be witnessing a retreat …

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

3/29/2017

and regulating of the public at large for its survival. Mr. Kissinger's six-point program is a preamble … suggested that Exurbia, that social quicksand of affluent middle America surrounding our large urban centers …

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The Subphrenic Spaces and the Emperor's New Robes

3/29/2017

, they were confusing. As a practicing surgeon, personal experience with a large number of abscesses … to the triangular ligament and yet superior to the liver. Experience with large numbers of repairs of hiatal hernias … involves the division of these very large spaces into compartments anterior and posterior. Although …

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The Effects of Hemorrhage on Body Composition

3/29/2017

distribution despite the large amount of energy expended to maintain this cationic distinction. In the steady … and within body water is stored a large nonaqueous or anhydrous component consisting of neutral triglycerides … to gain weight in terms of potassium-rich muscular tissues. These are largely skeletal muscles whose …

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On Caring for the Patient with Cancer

3/29/2017

of alleged cancer cures like krebiozen in the past and laetrile in the present are due largely to the failure …, and these decisions must be tailor-made to individual cases and circumstances. If technology and law were largely … selected the time of their death, arranged for a large family gathering to celebrate the event …

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Youth in Protest — Overtones for Medicine

3/29/2017

, and have usually been brought up in comparatively affluent circumstances. Another large group … is probably less at fault in causing and sustaining social problems than almost any other large social … target for their misdirected energies. They see it as a microcosm of the world at large, and demand …

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At the Bedside

3/29/2017

of scientific progress. During the fallow periods it was the mode to rely largely upon the past and to accept …

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The Involuntary Plight of the Voluntary Hospital

3/28/2017

doctors and trustees for years. In addition, hospital income now comes largely from the staff's private … the years permit a large percentage of the staff to serve on the governing board and to become better …

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

3/28/2017

here on matters of public health will not be a "first" in the history of this occasion. A large number … surgical procedures. A large number of physicians in the Commonwealth have received training … gratifying to have periodic assurance from the profession at large that this undertaking is an appropriate …

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Docendo Discimus

3/28/2017

." This was an epoch-making communication and was given largely in protest against the then-prevalent excessive medication … good doctors than ever before. But there is still a large area for discussion, for criticism …. It has to do largely with personality and character, natural ability, motivation and attitudes as well …

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