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Medical Manpower: The Medical Auxiliary, Harold I. Nemuth
Medical Manpower: The Medical Auxiliary, Harold I. Nemuth
MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly
Discussion based on The Assistant Medical Officer. The Training of the Medical Auxiliary in Developing Countries by E. F. Rosinski and F. J. Spencer. University of North Carolina Press. 1965. The current problem which Drs. Rosinski and Spencer have sharply delineated, is the provision of adequate medical care for all the people not only in the developing countries, but here in our so-called "well-developed" society. With or without Medicare the health needs of 190 million Americans increase daily with woefully disproportionate growth in the medical manpower needed to meet these needs. Whatever few failings may be attributed to the Assistant …
Applications Of Computers To Medicine, Edward N. Brandt Jr.
Applications Of Computers To Medicine, Edward N. Brandt Jr.
MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly
The purpose of this paper is to present an over-view of current applications of computers to problems in medicine and not to discuss any specific application in detail. This discussion will be concerned only with digital computers. The modern digital computer is not very old. As a matter of fact, digital computers as we know them date from approximately 1949. Yet in this short span of time they have contributed to almost every sphere of man's activities. Computers have been applied to medical problems since about 1956, and have played an important role in increasing both the depth and breadth …
The Shame Of American Medicine--A Reply, David W. Richardson
The Shame Of American Medicine--A Reply, David W. Richardson
MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly
Reply to Elinor Langer's "The Shame of American Medicine" by David W. Richardson, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, Medical College of Virginia.
The Healing Of Persons, Paul Tournier
The Healing Of Persons, Paul Tournier
MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly
Text of a talk delivered, in French, by Paul Tournier, at the Medical College of Virginia, April 27, 1965. Translation by Miss Beryl Eeman.
The Shame Of American Medicine, Elinor Langer
The Shame Of American Medicine, Elinor Langer
MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly
The success of American medicine is often attributed to the profession's ability to serve the public on its own terms. Why should doctors care if, from the patient's point of view, the terms chosen--solo practice and emphasis on the "doctor-patient relationship"--mean that a doctor performs unsupervised services for unregulated fees? What does it matter to them that the poor are outside the system altogether, treated in charity wards or public hospitals which are the medical equivalent of Andrew Carnegie's libraries, a small concession to charity from an accelerating machine of wealth, power, and influence? In a country proud of its …
What Is A Modern Physician?, George W. Pickering
What Is A Modern Physician?, George W. Pickering
MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly
The first thing to remember is that the patient is not just a pair of tonsils, or perhaps, a skin, a prostate gland, or a pregnant uterus. This is a person. And it is essential that you should treat the patient as a person, as an individual who has feelings just like you and I have, who has a family background like you and I have, who has personal, domestic, and business problems, as most of us have.