Word: physician
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...Laws and Principles of Medical Ethics of the A. M. A. Those documents contain 146 rules which place the practice of medicine in the U. S. under a closed professional dome which doctors want their patients to believe is the most beautiful, unselfish, beneficent thing on earth.† Any physician who by accident or design happens to get into the lay spotlight runs a serious risk of being tossed out of Organized Medicine. Chief catapult is Chapter III, Article I, Section 4, of the Principles of Medical Ethics, which pertains to "advertising" and reads in part: ". . . It is equally unprofessional...
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...
...University of Chicago largely what they are today; who, with Dr. George Henry Simmons, editor and general manager-emeritus of the A. M. A., made the A. M. A. a great, potent organization; who, most of all, promulgated the doctrine of focal infection. More than any other physician, he traced human ailments to their remote and often obscure causes. definitely establishing that infected tonsils may cause blood poisoning, that gonorrhea may produce rheumatism, that a bad tooth may result in heart disease...
...Carrel and Albert Einstein, Dr. George Richards Minot (who later received a Nobel Prize), the late great Dr. William Henry Welch (1849-1934). The salutes to Dr. Libman filled three Libman Anniversary Volumes. Dr. Welch, who wrote the introduction, needed ten epithets for his hero: "Teacher, investigator, writer, skilled physician, exemplar and promoter of scientific research, generous helper of fellow-workers and pupils, guide, leader and friend of a devoted band of disciples...
...from San Francisco to New York, Baron Henri de Rothschild, practicing physician, essayist, playwright, perfumer, big game hunter, winemaker but no banker (TIME, May 20), was asked by Chicago newshawks about international finance, the position of the franc. Shrugged Dr. de Rothschild: "It's too early in the morning to talk about world finance...