Word: interneships
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Noel ("Chris") Arden was a big, heavy- shouldered young man with a capable pair of surgeon's hands and three years' interneship behind him. When he set up practice for himself, waited for patients to come, it seemed a long wait. The family in whose house he boarded and had his office were a no-account lot. Beverly, pretty heiress of the town's tycoon, brought Chris his first patient-her dog. She and Chris quarrelled and fell in love immediately. Chris was too proud and poor to do anything about it, but Beverly wangled...
...high school, where the same process is repeated. Then he goes on to college, which will also not require him to meet any standards. From there he goes to medical school, where the same conditions obtain. He gets his degree and goes to a hospital to serve his interneship and is told that he will be allowed to develop as his abilities allow. Then he hangs out his shingle and operates upon Steve Bayne for appendicitis. Dr. Bayne wouldn't like that...
...that hard climb the grubbiest period is the year or two after medical school when the graduate doctor is fulfilling his interneship requirements. In most of the 697 good U. S. hospitals, the interne gets an opportunity to ride the ambulance to emergency cases, to practice medicine, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics and x-ray technique on ward and clinic cases. Experienced practitioners hover over him all the time, show him how to do this & that. In time he may get opportunity to suture the peritoneum after the appendectomist or the laparotomist gets through his work. But real experience in surgery...
...want better educational programs in the hospitals. We want salaries. We want the security of insurance. In lieu of salaries, we're always told of the educational advantages in hospital interneship, but these aren't provided. Even the hospital libraries are often inadequate. As to insurance, if we lose an eye in the course of our duty, or our life, there's no compensation. There have been actual cases where an ambulance driver and an ambulance doctor were killed answering calls. The driver's family can collect compensation. The doctor is not covered. . . . We have no protection, alive or dead...
...Johns Hopkins Hospital. When Dr. Lewis, 57, was a Kewanee, Ill boy his great ambition was to be a professional ball player. He became a proficient pitcher. While he studied medicine at Rush Medical College he spent almost every free afternoon at ball games. The great pleasure of his interneship was the free passes which he received for tending the minor injuries of Chicago players...