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Nobody knew much about the dangers of overexposure to X rays when a young intern named Percy Emerson Brown set up the X-ray department at Boston Children's Hospital. The year was 1903 and the X ray was only seven years old. As Dr. Brown later wrote, "Enthusiasm was in the saddle, accoutered with the lance of investigation and the spurs of continued experimental revelation, but not yet with the shield and armor of protection...
...Authorizes the Attorney General to intern potential spies and saboteurs in time of war, invasion or insurrection...
...intern who began his duties at Brooklyn's Women's Hospital soon after he got out of the Army in 1945 seemed to have everything. He showed the hospital authorities photostats of degrees from Scottish and German universities; medical patter rolled smoothly off his tongue. The confidence inspired by his earnest, sympathetic eyes and velvety bedside manner suggested that William R. MacLeod would go far in his chosen profession. Within the next few months he had helped deliver 475 babies...
...wife of an intern with a small son, I heartily endorse Dr. William Hart's no-more-interns idea [TIME, Aug. 28]. My husband is interning at one of the East Bay better-paying hospitals, and we have figured that ... he makes a little more than 30? an hour-this, after eight years of college and graduating in the upper third of his medical class...
...medical schools are now closely linked with hospitals, Dr. Hart argued, the young doctor no longer needs further practical experience on hospital wards. At Southwestern, for example, students spend seven out of their twelve terms in Dallas hospitals-"which ought to be enough." In fact, said Dr. Hart, the intern system sometimes does more harm than good. Under a "hierarchy of hospital staffers" the intern comes to depend on continuing supervision, which may make his transition to independent practice more difficult...