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When the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine was opened in 1893, a high-school graduate could get right into medical college and expect to hang out his shingle in about four years. "The Hopkins," as Baltimoreans call it, changed all that. It demanded a college degree, then four years of...
After vague rumblings of possible changes at Johns Hopkins, details of a radical new plan were reported last week. As soon as it can raise enough funds for additional faculty and necessary new buildings, the university proposes to: ¶Admit students to the school of medicine after only two years...
Died. Dr. Henry Ernest Sigerist, 65, longtime advocate of socialized medicine in the U.S., medical historian (TIME, March 10, 1947), and former director of the Johns Hopkins Institute of the History of Medicine (1932-47), who retired to write an eight-volume History of Medicine, finished only one; of a...
Meanwhile, at Johns Hopkins, Surgeon Alfred Blalock worked with Pediatrician Helen Taussig on Fallot's tetralogy, developed their famous blue-baby operation (since 1944 Blalock and his assistants have done 1,500 such operations, with about 85% long-term survivals).
Some surgeons frankly doubted whether Beck's operation did any good. Others noted that after any surgery in the chest, the heart sac was likely to become irritated (and therefore develop better circulation), so they argued that Beck could do as much good simply by opening the chest, looking...