TY  - JOUR
T1  - THe medical society and the medical men of one hundred years ago
Y1  - 2009/02/18
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2009.108
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 783
EP  - 783
VL  - 301
IS  - 7
N2  - 
That medicine is an all-absorbing profession is a trite saying. If we were to bring two doctors into this room, the one from the coast of Maine, the other from the coast of California, the chances are more than even that they would be talking medicine within ten minutes. The one would brag a bit over a cure he had effected when recovery seemed impossible, and when even Dame Nature herself was wringing her hands in despair; the other would shake his head gravely over the mistaken diagnosis of a brother practitioner, a diagnosis that should have been plain as the nose on one's face, and which was instantly made by the narrator when called in consultation. These little preliminaries settled, both would begin to discuss cases in which the patients obstinately refused to be cured in spite of diagnostic skill or scientific treatment.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2009.108
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2009.108
ER  -