Word: goings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There has appeared the growth of a serious tendency for young men whose professional education in medicine is not now completed or not begun to cease their preparation for national service in their chosen field, and to go into some other work where their abilities could be more easily available...
...medical staff needs brave men. Where the foremost men in the charge go, there the doctor follows, bringing what succor he may to the wounded. In the trenches, out in the wastes of No Man's Land, on ships of the line, on hospital boats, the doctors of all nations are present with the bearers of arms, meeting, if need be, death with equal fortitude. The mortality among those who do not strive to inflict wounds, but to heal them, has been notably great. There is chance here for our young men of spirit to accomplish at once a brave...
...allowed me to spend the night with him. He did not suffer at all, and talked rationally about the work of the section, and was much interested in the good news from France that just reached me. He lived until the next morning, and practically died urging me to go to bed so I could work as usual...
Such spontaneous and universal comprehension of a national need is praise-worthy. But unfortunately modern armies are not composed of simple elements. They are vastly complex, and the abilities which go to make them must be vastly complex. We need officers of the battle-line; we need cultivation of our productive soil. But we need in addition, engineers and artillery men, manufacturers, business men, doctors. If we turn all our technical school men into infantry officers, we shall have no bridges to cross, for none will be built. If we turn all our medical students into farmers, the armies...
There has appeared a tendency for men in the Medical School and men who are preparing for that School, to cease their course of study and go at once into active service. Few things could be more unfortunate. It is not possible that we may have a surplus of doctors. It is possible that we may have a dearth. Those who learn are no less serving than those who drill. In a year's time a graduated doctor may be worth more to his nation than three first-line officers, and be the cause of saving more lives than fifty...