The New England Journal of Medicine and the Massachusetts Medical Society

11/16/2016

communications, and of the correspondence of such practitioners and experimental observers, as may favour … and a report to the General Court of Massachusetts that may be found in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal … human suffering, which may become a valuable agent in the hands of careful and well-instructed …

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How Specialized Is a Specialty?

11/15/2016

of so-called general surgery in so far as the care of patients is concerned may be of interest … physicians, no matter what else they may be proficient in, must be familiar with such subjects as modern … Hospital. This series may be considered typical of the neurosurgical case load in any given community …

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

11/14/2016

the ratification of peace) when at the instigation of fourteen Boston doctors, on May 11, 1781, an Act … the ringleaders may have been is now impossible to say; but almost certainly they were the younger men, and from … they may, for with Robert Fulton's steamboats plying the Hudson they are in point of time much nearer …

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Some Responsibilities of Medical Education

11/14/2016

the dean's office to return to teaching and research, hoping, as one may say, to regain my amateur standing …. The responsibilities of medical schools, to my mind, may be summarized in six major categories. Provision … of the recent past have multiplied the variety of careers in medicine. Those equipped with medical training may …

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The Practitioner's Need of an Intelligent Skepticism

11/14/2016

there is due a certain succession of processes, to be completed in a certain time; which time and processes may … vary with the constitution and condition of the patient, and may tend to death, or to recovery … will profit by the sale of the medicament being extolled and should seek evidence from other sources. It may …

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Some Remarks on Therapy for Anemia (PDF)

11/14/2016

setts Medical Society, Boston, May 26, 1942. \s=d\Professor of medicine. Harvard Medical School … ROSENFELD on May 25, 2016. For personal use only. No other uses without permission. From the NEJM … that, relying only on the latter, the physician may fail to realize that the response has already begun …

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The Trend of Medicine In The Twentieth Century

11/14/2016

as they existed in these same fields at the beginning of the century may be of interest. Obviously the whole field … profession for the practice of medicine. Despite any problems which may exist in medicine the bright spot … naturally varies in different generations but the profession may look with pride upon the discoveries which …

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

11/14/2016

Boston doctors, on May 11, 1781, an Act to Incorporate certain Physicians by the The New England … Journal of Medicine Downloaded from nejm.org by JOSH ROSENFELD on May 23, 2016. For personal use only … accomplish- ment. Who the ringleaders may have been is now impossible to say; but almost certainly they were …

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New England, Neurosurgery and the Neurosurgeon

11/14/2016

troops—exiles for their political convictions. We may read between the lines and learn that the doctor … of insanity is more than a rainbow. Destructive surgery, it is true, but nevertheless it may be the dawn … in the mobile units are repairing bullet wounds of nerves and of the central nervous system. What lesson may we …

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The Medical Society and Maternal Mortality

11/14/2016

of death should always be stated even though it may not have been a cause of death … Death called the "primary cause" and the Contributory Cause or Causes called "secondary.” One may cite … as evidence that a dilemma may exist, the following causes of death reported to the Health Department …

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