Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under this rule most U. S. Medicine is practiced out of sight and sound of the rest of the country, and brave or foolhardy is the doctor who dares to speak out to the laity on a particular medical or surgical case, a disease or treatment, a research project. As...
A newsworthy doctor who is currently in trouble with Organized Medicine as a result of clumsy press relations is Dr. Philemon Edwards Truesdale of Fall River, Mass. Last winter an Omaha colleague sent Dr. Truesdale a 10-year-old patient named Alyce Jane McHenry who was suffering from diaphragmatic hernia...
...realized that the traditional principles of the Massachusetts Medical Society warned practitioners to keep their personal and professional activities out of the lay Press as much as possible. However, the circumstances which confronted us in this case were such that a policy of direction, control and restraint in apportioning news which seemed autocratic to us appeared unharnessed to many members of the [medical] profession looking on from the outside...
...Committee on Ethics & Discipline of the Massachusetts Medical Society accepted Dr. Truesdale's apology. "Dr. Truesdale," the Committee acknowledged, "realized the obligation to preserve a decent professional reserve and at the same time avoid alienating the Press, whose good offices our profession has had many occasions to acknowledge with gratitude." But the Committee found cause to snarl because "a quasi-official endorsement of the publicity was offered by the assignment of the New York Academy of Medicine of its press liaison officer to report the operation for the Associated Press." That special reporter for the A. P. was tousle...
*Excerpts: "You do solemnly swear . . . That you will be loyal to the Profession of Medicine and just and generous to its members; That you will lead your lives and practice your art in uprightness and honor; That into what ever house you shall enter, it shall be for the good...