Word: patients
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...finds his time wholly occupied from nine until five or six o'clock with a fixed routine of lecture and laboratory, though chiefly laboratory, and this persists for two years,--, although in second half of the second year the laboratory exercise begins to yield to the hospital and the patient. But now the attention is merely turned from test-tube and laboratory tissue to another object of study, in which the student becomes an observer of living man rather than of the lower animals or of dissection and microscopic pathology. Students usually consider that their most difficult years are behind...
...Massachusetts General Hospital has applied for 30 helpers. Some for secretarial work in the out-patient department; others in the Medical Department for general supervision and personal attention, such as reading to patients. Besides these, men are wanted for photographic work, which offers good experience and, contact with many doctors...
...most interesting and important positions which must be filled is that of Clinical Secretary in the Out-Patient Department. This secretary's chief duty is to record a description of each case and to have general supervision of the patients while they are at the hospital...
...hears much nowadays of "Americanization"; but "Americanization", unfortunately, is a long word, which is not fully understood by either immigrant or native. In so far as it implies any concrete program, "Americanization" seems to connote a draught of medicine, administered with a certain degree of force, to a patient who hesitates, even if he does not struggle. The medicine, from our point of view, may be very beneficial. But that will not make it taste any better to the recipient; and unless the latter knows the purpose of the remedy, as well as the nature of his ailment, the cure...
...time of his death he was conducting a course in psychopathology in the Department of Philosophy and Psychology. With this more theoretical interest was united a close attention to the organic aspects of mental disease, and the relation of autopsy findings to the mental symptoms shown by the patient during his confinement in the hospital. At the time of his death he had nearly completed a comprehensive study and classification of the problems of social service, especially emphasizing the needs of psychiatric social work. In this connection also he defined the province of Social Psychiatry, as distinguished from social psychology...