Word: groups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent address before the New England regional convention of the Association of Medical Students by the noted surgeon, Dr. Hugh Cabot, on group practice gives cause for serious reflection concerning the role of the individual physician in the society of tomorrow. Just as our modern high speed motor ambulances are a far cry from the jolting buggy of the Old Country Doctor, so vast changes have taken place in the methods of medical diagnosis and treatment. No longer can the family physician carry in his little black bag all the equipment needed to restore his sick neighbor to health...
With doctors realizing as never before the importance of preventive and curative measures in the control of disease, group practice offers numerous advantages over the individual physician. Under this new system, it is easy for a case to receive a complete diagnosis by experts in several fields. Although the personal relationship between physician and patient suffers in group practice, the saving in time and cost more than counterbalances this loss. The enormous reduction in overhead expense, caused by the elimination of duplication in laboratory equipment and office space, can serve both to make possible lower fees for patients...
...among the lower income groups of the population, particularly in the rural areas, that collective medicine finds its most crying need. While state hospitals and charitable institutions have made enormous strides in the past, more frequent medical care in virtually every part of the country is a sine qua non for a rise in the standards of national health. Only through well-equipped clinics, which in many cases will have to receive state subsidies, can our humbler citizens afford expert, specialized consultation. Those who furiously denounce all group practice as "undemocratic" and "socialistic" are still living in the Horse...
...with the performance of the Brahms Requicm with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. This program is the culmination of the year-long labors of hundreds of students, and it manages at the same time to be one of the major musical events of Boston, for the excellence of the undergraduate group has been fully recognized...
There is no doubt that a chorus of young people, enthusiastic, and singing for the sake of singing itself is infinitely superior to an older professional group if the purely technical problems of fullness of tone and precision of performance can be overcome. The success of Mr. Woodworth in obtaining results of high professional standard from the student choir, in spite of the tremendous size of the yearly schedule, has provided this community with just such a chorus...