White, Paul Dudley, (6 June 1886–31 Oct. 1973), American physician; cardiac specialist since 1913

2007 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
American Physician ◽  
Cardiac Specialist

Disease and Civilization: A Scottish Atlantic Network of Physicians in the Enlightenment

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-216
Author(s):  
Sarah Irving-Stonebraker
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Historical Progress ◽  
Practice Of Medicine ◽  
Benjamin Rush ◽  
American Physician ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
A Current

Through an examination of the extensive papers, manuscripts and correspondence of American physician Benjamin Rush and his friends, this article argues that it is possible to map a network of Scottish-trained physicians in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Atlantic world. These physicians, whose members included Benjamin Rush, John Redman, John Morgan, Adam Kuhn, and others, not only brought the Edinburgh model for medical pedagogy across the Atlantic, but also disseminated Scottish stadial theories of development, which they applied to their study of the natural history and medical practices of Native Americans and slaves. In doing so, these physicians developed theories about the relationship between civilization, historical progress and the practice of medicine. Exploring this network deepens our understanding of the transnational intellectual geography of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century British World. This article develops, in relation to Scotland, a current strand of scholarship that maps the colonial and global contexts of Enlightenment thought.

Henry Ingersoll Bowditch (1808–82): American physician, public health advocate and social reformer

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 145-150
Author(s):  
Paul M Butler
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Inductive Reasoning ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Reformer ◽  
Social Perspectives ◽  
Diagnostic Use ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
Health Advocate ◽  
American Physician ◽  
Statistical Trends

Henry Ingersoll Bowditch, a Bostonian physician from the mid-19th century, lived a passionate life full of commitment and devotion to various noble causes – he was a champion of public health, an advocate for inclusion of women in medicine and a staunch abolitionist, all unpopular social perspectives at that time in medical and political history. Seemingly difficult personality traits including his stubbornness and moralistic outlook were likely ‘adaptive’ as he confronted the political reality of major institutional change. His interest in statistical trends and environmental influences and his inductive reasoning led to a deeper understanding of consumption (tuberculosis), the widespread diagnostic use of the stethoscope and thoracocentesis.

Platonism

2019 ◽  
pp. 108-131
Author(s):  
Julie Chajes
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Indian Thought ◽  
American Physician ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Important Site ◽  
Platonic Tradition

Chapter 5 argues that Blavatsky’s works are an important site for the intersection of occultist thought with nineteenth-century Classicism. It shows that Blavatsky initially argued that Pythagoras and Plato were advocates of metempsychosis and that later, she said they taught reincarnation. The chapter considers the relationship between Blavatsky’s rebirth teachings and her constructions of the ancient Greeks, situating her interest within a far-ranging nineteenth-century fascination with Classical civilisation. It argues that Blavatsky’s interpretations had substantial anti-establishment elements and that they were influenced by her friend, the American physician Alexander Wilder (1823–1908), himself a member of an American Platonic tradition with roots in Transcendentalism and the thought of the English neo-Platonist Thomas Taylor (1758–1835). The chapter shows that Blavatsky drew on her sources to construe the Greeks according to an occultist exegesis that claimed Hellenism had an Oriental source and located parallels for Greek rebirth ideas in Hebraic, Gnostic, and Indian thought.

scholarly journals Integration and retention of American physician assistants/associates working in English hospitals: A qualitative study

Health Policy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 124 (5) ◽  
pp. 525-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Taylor ◽  
Vari M Drennan ◽  
Mary Halter ◽  
Melania Calestani
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Physician Assistants ◽  
American Physician

scholarly journals Perceived impact on efficiency and safety of experienced American physician assistants/associates in acute hospital care in England: findings from a multi-site case organisational study

JRSM Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 205427042096957
Author(s):  
Vari M Drennan ◽  
Melania Calestani ◽  
Francesca Taylor ◽  
Mary Halter ◽  
Ros Levenson
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
Physician Assistants ◽  
Junior Doctors ◽  
Medical Council ◽  
Positive Contribution ◽  
Clinical Placements ◽  
Acute Hospitals ◽  
Experienced Physician ◽  
Surgical Teams ◽  
American Physician

Summary Objectives To investigate the contribution, efficiency and safety of experienced physician associates included in the staffing of medical/surgical teams in acute hospitals in England, including facilitating and hindering factors. Design Mixed methods longitudinal, multi-site evaluation of a two-year programme employing 27 American physician associates: interviews and documentary analysis. Setting Eight acute hospitals, England. Participants 36 medical directors, consultants, junior doctors, nurses and manager, 198 documents. Results Over time, the experienced physician associates became viewed as a positive asset to medical and surgical teams, even in services where high levels of scepticism were initially expressed. Their positive contribution was described as bringing continuity to the medical/surgical team which benefited patients, consultants, doctors-in-training, nurses and the overall efficiency of the service. This is the first report of the positive impact that, including physician associates in medical/surgical teams, had on achieving safe working hours for doctors in training. Many reported the lack of physician associates regulation with attendant legislated authority to prescribe medicines and order ionising radiation was a hindrance in their deployment and employment. However, by the end of the programme, seven hospitals had published plans to increase the numbers of physician associates employed and host clinical placements for student physician associates. Conclusions The programme demonstrated the types of contributions the experienced physician associates made to patient experience, junior doctor experience and acute care services with medical workforce shortages. The General Medical Council will regulate the profession in the future. Robust quantitative research is now required.

Auf den Spuren des Erb’schen Auskultationspunkts: Rätsel gelöst

2018 ◽  
Vol 143 (25) ◽  
pp. 1852-1857
Author(s):  
Frederick Kolb ◽  
Johannes Spanke ◽  
Andreas Winkelmann
Keyword(s):  
General Medicine ◽  
Neurological Manifestations ◽  
Heart Murmur ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
The Third ◽  
Erb’S Point ◽  
American Physician ◽  
Aortic Incompetence ◽  
Case Presentations ◽  
Syphilitic Aortitis

Abstract“Erb’s point” is the fifth point of auscultation for the heart exam, located in the third intercostal space close to the sternum. It has sometimes been attributed to famous German neurologist Wilhelm Heinrich Erb (1840 – 1921), but without historical evidence. Erb’s focus on neurology suggested that the auscultation point may have been confused with other points in the neck named after Erb. As Erb was a specialist for neurological manifestations of syphilis, we speculated that the heart murmur of aortic incompetence produced by syphilitic aortitis, best heard at Erb’s point, linked Erb’s name to the auscultation point. However, we eventually found a publication by an American physician who visited Erb’s lectures in Heidelberg and reported that Erb explicitly introduced this “fifth point” in his case presentations in the late 1890 s. After all, Erb was chair of general medicine, with the first German chair of neurology only being established in 1919.

The american physician: From legacy to legend?

1986 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard G. Kachel
Keyword(s):  
American Physician
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