RT Journal
A1 WRIGHT J
T1 THe deaf child and teh physician
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD December 25
VO LIII
IS 26
SP 2155
OP 2158
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.92550260001001f
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.92550260001001f
AB I wish to express my appreciation of the breadth of view shown by your Section in placing this paper on its program. It is an excellent example of the broad-minded attitude of your profession toward your work, showing that you feel that your responsibility to your patients does not end at the office door.During the twenty-one years that I have been engaged in the education of the deaf by the oral system 1 have always found physicians much interested in the subject. Every child whose hearing is defective is first taken to the family physician, who is usually a general practitioner, and in most cases sooner or later he advises that a specialist be consulted. On these two men rests in llarge measure ths responsibility for the highest welfare' of the child. In some cases the best efforts of the best !men can not restore to the child