Medical Aims and Ideals

3/29/2017

, What is our vision? And thereafter we may ask, What is our performance? Some years ago, Dean Roscoe … habuisse doloris" (it is a solace to the misery of grief to have friends). Though the quotation may … thought uncovers one criticism of modern medicine that may represent its most basic weakness today …

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Organ Replacement, Facial Deformity, and Plastic Surgery

3/29/2017

, most of whom were young and otherwise healthy. One of our twin recipients receiving a transplant in May …, for a face lift? It may be a recently widowed or divorced woman seeking employment, an airline stewardess … on craniofacial defects may follow the pattern of transplantation biology; transplantation gave a clinical …

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At the Bedside

3/29/2017

ready retrieval, or one who is qualified to prepare a communication for publication so that others may … of instances, however, only partially documented or grossly false. Whatever charge may be leveled against … nurse-psychiatric clinic triangle may be the only practical solution to the handling of the psychiatric problems …

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The Involuntary Plight of the Voluntary Hospital

3/28/2017

provisions of Chapter 636 of the Acts of 1953, a hospital may be fined $500 for failure to provide such cost … information as may be required. As a result hospitals are on the way to having a uniform system of accounting … physician; that he may use his position to promote himself on the staff; that the staff may come to regard …

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

3/28/2017

deeply appreciate and of whose significance I am keenly aware. It may or may not be of some moment that I … of mind, it may be well to look back for a moment and review a few of the events that … into action. Shattuck's now famous Sanitary Survey of 1850 may have languished on some official shelf …

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Docendo Discimus

3/28/2017

tablets of science. The ideas expressed by Bigelow may have led to the dissertation of 1860, which caused … in 1952, substituting for John Fallon, of Worcester, whose untimely death may have been in part due … is such an important factor in all of medicine, may eventually solve some problems but will undoubtedly raise others …

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Genes, the Heart and Destiny

3/28/2017

. We may or may not accept them. The course of our lives depends on the combination of these chances … factors actually behind either group or how to distinguish between them, and, indeed, there may …. In such a case it is conceivable that an inherited resistance to German measles or its lack may be just …

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Reflections on the Challenge to the Medical Profession in India

3/28/2017

" in the United States and because India avowedly adheres to "a socialistic pattern," it may be pointed out … of work may double after the first payday when the man has been able to buy food. In India a woman who … may be added to Gregg's note. The rapid migration and proliferation of individual cells cease …

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The Role of Diagnostic Roentgenology in Medicine

3/28/2017

to masses, calcifications, obstructions and perforations. The spine and pelvis may reveal metastatic … the cardia of the stomach may cause deformation of the gastric gas bubble. Studies of the gastrointestinal … in the lungs or bones may be the first indication of the disease. Anomalies such as polycystic disease …

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Small Puddles

3/28/2017

choose to continue in this unpromising vein in the hope that we may salvage perhaps some historic value … of view. Though this may be conceded, the intrusion of the personal touch, which I trust …. The remarkable increase of 14.7 per cent in Barnstable may easily be explained by the establishment of Camp …

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