Annual report of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital : 1926.

  • Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
Date:
1926
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Credit: Annual report of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital : 1926. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tiss has begun practice in Syracuse, New York, where he also has an appointment on the teaching staff of the Medical School of Syracuse University; Dr. Ragsdale is in practice in Birmingham, Alabama, where he is associated with Dr. James S. McLester; Dr. Wilson is Assistant Resident Physician at Van¬ derbilt University Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee; Dr. Herrmann is Assistant Surgical Resident at the Lakeside Hospital, Cleveland; Dr. Humiston is a Surgical Fellow at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota; and Dr. Falk is house officer in pathology at the Boston City Hospital. Physician-in-Chief, Pro Tempore During the year, Dr. Samuel W. Lambert of New York, Attending Physician at St. Luke’s Hospital, and Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, served as Physician-in-Chief, pro tempore, making the twelfth of this group of eminent physicians who have come into our midst and shared with us their wisdom. It is an inspiration to all of us to have these visitations. To the junior members of the staff, coming as they do into a very intimate relationship with a leader of the profession from another city for this brief period, the experience is one of great usefulness. Provincialism in methods of medicine is bad; to watch another use skillfully methods in which he has been trained, in large part methods different from those used locally, demonstrates that there are many ways of arriving at a diagnosis, any of which may at times prove superior to those cus¬ tomarily used. After all, it is the man behind the method that counts. Dr. Lambert, a wise clinician with a ripe experience