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Those are the Osler Oration and the Frank Billings Lecture. Older of the two is the Osler Oration, named after the late Sir William Osler (1849-1919), great practitioner and teacher of medicine. Osler Orator this year is Dr. Lewellys Franklin Barker, 67, Canadian-born successor to Osler as physician-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital...
...first medical educator to pair research with instruction. Called "Popsy" by friends and students, Dr. Welch was portly, friendly, modest. He was one of "The Four Doctors" of the vivid Sargent painting which hangs in the William H. Welch Medical Library at Johns Hopkins. Of the others -Sir William Osler, Dr. William Stewart Halsted and Dr. Howard Atwood Kelly- only the last survives...
...understanding of human nature. The old family doctor was a bit rough-and-ready in his obstetrics when he raced with the stork along snowy roads in a one-horse shay, but he knew something that the modern vintage of physicians too often forgets. Like the great Sir William Osler, he knew that a doctor's ministration is not confined to medicine. Although the specialist in the city may succeed without this full complement of humanity, the man who goes out into the country places needs to be, now as always, a philosopher and friend to his patients...
...Haven Hospital, where Sheridan was taken in an ambulance, he was attended by three doctors, one of whom was Dr. Harvey Cushing, famed brain and nerve specialist. The great Yaleman and disciple of the late great Sir William Osler was in New Haven for a surgeons' conference on the day of the game. Dr. Cushing found that Sheridan had a broken neck, said he might live, under artificial respiration, for minutes, hours or days. After 48 hours he died. He was buried with full military honors due a soldier fallen in the Service of his country...
...joviality, learning, stimulation and insight that his every patient, student and colleague revered Sir William Osler as a demigod. For more than a decade (he died in 1919 at Oxford whither he had gone from Johns Hopkins), Medicine has agreed that there never was a studious, teaching practitioner like him. A request for a list of living U. S. doctors who approach Osler in knowledge, expertness and teaching last week brought answers from a jury representative of the profession. Out of 36 different names suggested as great in the U. S., the jury agreed only on the Brothers Mayo...