Preventing Iatrogenic Complications

When Dr. Soma Weiss assumed the chair as the Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic at the Harvard Medical School and the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1939, I was privileged to be an entering assistant resident on his service. I recall vividly a strong point made in his opening rema...

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Published inThe New England journal of medicine Vol. 304; no. 11; pp. 664 - 665
Main Author Myers, Jack D
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Massachusetts Medical Society 12.03.1981
Subjects
Diagnostic Errors
Education
Hospitals
Humans
Iatrogenic Disease - prevention & control
Judgment
Patients
Physicians
Surgeons
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Summary:When Dr. Soma Weiss assumed the chair as the Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic at the Harvard Medical School and the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1939, I was privileged to be an entering assistant resident on his service. I recall vividly a strong point made in his opening remarks to the house staff. Dr. Weiss, one of this country's first clinical pharmacologists, admonished us that in the near future the internist would have therapeutic measures as powerful as those of the surgeon and that great knowledge and discretion would be needed in their appropriate application . . .
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ISSN:0028-4793
1533-4406
DOI:10.1056/NEJM198103123041109