OVER the years a fairly satisfactory system of base hospitals, forward hospitals, casualty clearing stations and field surgical units has gradually evolved so that the soldier fighting on land almost from the moment of wounding can be dealt with efficiently. A war at sea is a difficult and a different problem. This was particularly so in the 1914-1918 war. Firstly, compared with the Army medica...

470  Public Health Reports / November–December 2014 / Volume 129 Acting Surgeon General Boris D. Lushniak, MD, MPH, RADM, meets with Monique Bethell, PhD, a volunteer at Healing with CAARE, Inc., and Health Equity Coordinator, Community Transformation Grant for the North Carolina Division of Public Health, Department of Health and Human Services (center); and Dr. Sharon Elliott-Bynum, Founder ...

SURGICALLY speaking, we live in exciting times, and unlike Erickson, Moynihan, Murphy, and others in the past, the modern leader of surgical thought wisely refrains from declaring that surgery has achieved its final victories; indeed, rather do we anticipate with confidence further triumphs. On the other hand, as Ogilvie rightly points out, it is not manual dexterity or skill that improves, for...

for a PhD as a junior doctor in the 1960s. His consultant replied, in an incredulous tone, “You can’t study medical ethics!” The main danger of the osmosis theory is that it can perpetuate bad habits, carefully developed over years of unethical conduct. Another possibility, equally uncharitable, is that the decision makers in the surgical community, whose own training perhaps contained little e...

I am full} aware of the very great honour done me by my electioni as President of the Northerni Ireland(13ranlich of the British Medical Associationi, but, at the same time, I am acutelyN conscious of mn inability to fill that positioni in thle manniier to whlich you have been accustomed. For the past twelve months I have been attending meetings of Branch Cotuncil, etc., endeavouring to learn m...