Word: pusey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opening general meeting, Dr. William Allen Pusey, emeritus professor of diseases of the skin in the University of Illinois, was inaugurated, having been made President-elect at the San Francisco session in 1923. In his President's address Dr. Pusey attacked socialization of the medical profession. The ancient responsibility of the profession?treat-ing the sick and injured?rather than reforms by organization, wholesale medical programs and government spoonfeeding, was held up as an ideal. President Coolidge was commended by Dr. Pusey for his "wise statesmanship" in "taking a definite stand against federal support" of a wide range of socialized...
...outlook of medicine today rests, as always, on the individual progress and courage of physicians, Dr. Pusey declared. "Carry our discoveries to the utmost limit, man is still a machine that will get out of order, will be injured and will ultimately wear out. As long as this is true there will be need for the personal physician to take care of the individual patient. For this service, thousands of physicians will be needed where hundreds can be usefully employed in research and preventive medicine. These men are on the firing line. The battle for relief of suffering depends...