RT Journal
T1 MEdical america seen with foreign eyes
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2013
FD January 23
VO 309
IS 4
SP 325
OP 325
DO 10.1001/jama.2012.145186
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.145186
AB 
Sane, unbiased criticism must ever rank among the helpful influences that make for progress. The debt that American medicine owes to Great Britain, to France and to Germany, each of which has in turn furnished instruction and inspiration to eager students and travelers from our shores, has often been referred to in public with becoming emphasis and gratitude. Eminent German physicians and investigators have published their impressions of the status of medical science in America with an impartial insight that has dictated many just comments on our shortcomings. We recall a particularly trenchant commentary of a few years ago by Prof. F. von Müller of Munich. Warm commendation and friendly adverse criticism were mingled in becoming fashion.