Comprehensive Medical Screenings an Essential Aspect of Preventive Medicine

Preventive Medicine in Medical Care

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE IN MEDICAL CARE. By Kurt Schwarz. (Pp 216. £2.50). London: H. K. Lewis, 1970. THE author of this book combines his appointment as Senior Lecturer in Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the University of Leeds with those of Assistant Medical Officer to the City of Leeds and Consultant Physician to the United Leeds Hospitals. By virtue of these appointments he is in the u...

Reducing medical errors: an essential aspect of neurosurgical practice.

The Medical Practitioner as an Asset to Preventive Medicine.

" MEDICINE," wrote Plato more than two thousand years uigo, "is the science of health." To-day it is popularly regarded as the science of disease; otherwise we should be in the iab,it of paying for medical attendance only while we were actually maintained in good health, and yet, as matters now are, we are taught to live when our life is wellnigh spent. A revolution in act as well as in thought...

Progress in Teaching Preventive Medicine in Medical Schools *

During recent years the teaching of preventive medicine has been discussed so widely in North America and in Great Britain that it now is possible to state certain general principles which are rather widely accepted in the English-speaking countries. On both sides of the Atlantic committees after considering the matter seriously have made their recommendations. In the fall of 1946 a five-day me...

Best paper in preventive medicine by a medical student.

This paper won this year’s competition for the “Best Paper in Preventive Medicine by a Medical Student.” Since its inception in 1992, this award has been co-sponsored by the American College of Preventive Medicine, the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine, the Association of American Medical Colleges, and the Ulrich and Ruth Frank Foundation for International Health. The monetary priz...