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...Interns. Medical school graduates, practically everywhere in the U.S. at present, must perform at least one year of internship in a recognized hospital before being acceptable as a practitioner. In the hospitals their work is supposed to be practical, the putting into practice of their academic knowledge. Their salaries are meagre, generally between $25 and $30 a month besides board, lodging and laundry. Orderlies earn $40 to $60 a month and keep. Nurses get more. But theirs is a trade, whereas the intern is an embryo professional man. He is paying in a way for his educational contracts with skilled...
...intern's ideal is to learn from the esteemed members of his staff how to diagnose and treat most accurately. The professional attitude towards patients, gleaned from frequent contacts is also invaluable. Some hospitals require rotating services, whereby the intern has. opportunity to deal with a wide variety of ailments. Other hospitals emphasize various services whereby the intern becomes a specialist of sorts and, except for the unusual man, remains somewhat fuzzy concerning the other services. Most medical school faculties recommend the rotating service for the recent graduate. The specialized service is considered advantageous for the matured or postgraduate student...
...Florence Rena Sabin is professor of histology at Johns Hopkins Medical School. She is 51 years old, a B. S. and Sc. D. of Smith and an M. D. of Hopkins, After a varied teaching experience, she became an intern at the Hopkins Hospital in 1901 and worked up through the ranks in the department of anatomy until she stands today among perhaps a score of the leading anatomists of the country. She is favorably known for her work on the medulla oblongata and the lymphatic and vascular systems. When American women presented Mme. Curie with a gram of radium...