TY  - JOUR
T1  - A bibliography of internal medicine, communicable diseases.
AU  - Bean WB
Y1  - 1959/04/01
N1  - 10.1001/archinte.1959.00270040158016
JO  - A.M.A. Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 672
EP  - 672
VL  - 103
IS  - 4
N2  - Continuity of medical thought, the history of the development of ideas, knowledge of the people who at various times in medical history have worked out complex problems—these elements of medical culture have fallen into such disrepair among the new generation of young physicians that the majority of them are as illiterate in this field as in the more esoteric aspects of the Sanskrit grammar. This puts them at risk of being mere technicians, the people who corral the chits from the laboratory, hoping to thumb through them and come out with a "diagnosis" so that they can apply "specific treatment" according to the cookbook. At the other extreme, we have medical scholars and teachers, those who have practiced medicine and adorned it with the impact of their presence, their personality, and their scholarship, as we see it in their teaching and writing. In this group, Arthur L. Bloomfield stands as
SN  - 0888-2479
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinte.1959.00270040158016
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1959.00270040158016
ER  -