RT Journal
T1 MEdicine and the lay press
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD June 5
VO LII
IS 23
SP 1841
OP 1842
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.02540490039007
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.02540490039007
AB The relations between medicine and the press form the subject of a thoughtful address1 by Dr. G. W. Crile, before the Section of Experimental Medicine of the Academy of Medicine of Cleveland. To what is due, he asks, the changed attitude of the public and the press toward medicine, as evidenced in the desire for medical items, which leads the newspapers nowadays to invade the privacy of the physician; whereas, aforetime, it was a fair presumption that such items appearing in the newspapers were not likely to be spontaneous, but had their source in the inspiration of the medical man. Crile sees in this change a realization by the public of the fact that medicine, by the rising tide of science, has come almost unexpectedly into the gravest of responsibilities, both private and public, and finds itself wielding a new and mighty power, affecting not alone the ordering of the