The Effects of Hemorrhage on Body Composition

3/29/2017

water may mask a more significant underlying relation between the red-cell mass and the body-cell mass … the plasma volume and the interstitial fluid. Several pathways and anatomic sites may be involved, as already … of this duration. The changes in albumin and globulin may reflect some alteration in the distribution of protein …

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On Caring for the Patient with Cancer

3/29/2017

about the patient with cancer. I will not ask the indulgence of the vast majority among you who may feel … to make: unforgivable because there are no valid grounds to make so rigid a prognosis. It may be three … of our profession to emphasize to patient and family how variable the course of disseminated cancer may …

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Youth in Protest — Overtones for Medicine

3/29/2017

or unpredictable and unpreventable events. This threat may well be more demoralizing to individuals than …, disturbing and sometimes overwhelming, and although one may wish that the young dealt with them differently … inflationary tendencies. This may deflect more young physicians into clinical practice. Yet at the same time …

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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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