Contraband Hospital, Freedmen’s Hospital, and Alexander Augusta

2022 ◽  
pp. 000313482110679
Author(s):  
Don K. Nakayama
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Hospital Care ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Medical Department ◽  
Military Installations ◽  
Howard University ◽  
The Military ◽  
Basic Medical

The tens of thousands of enslaved Blacks liberated by union forces during the American Civil War were considered seized property and thus were referred to as contraband. As wartime refugees they sought protection in federal military installations, popularly known as contraband camps, located throughout the occupied South. One of the largest was Camp Baker in the rural northwestern sector of Washington, DC, where about 40,000 persons were sheltered. To provide basic medical care, the military outfitted, in 1863, an infirmary called the Contraband Hospital, later renamed Freedmen’s Hospital. From its founding in 1867 the medical department of Howard University was attached to Freemen’s Hospital, which in 1975 was renamed the Howard University Hospital, the two institutions establishing a long partnership of medical education and hospital care that continues to the present day.

Commentary: An African Perspective on the Doha Round Negotiations

2005 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 1850076
Author(s):  
Kwame Bawuah-Edusei
Keyword(s):  
Medical Center ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Community Leader ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Energy Company ◽  
Army Hospital ◽  
Howard University ◽  
The University

An African commentary on the Doha Development Round. Kwame Bawuah-Edusei is Ambassador of Ghana to Switzerland and Austria and Permanent Representative of Ghana to the UN offices and international organizations in Geneva, including the WTO. He obtained his MD degree in 1982 at the University of Science and Technology, School of Medical Sciences, Kumasi Ghana, worked in Ghana for two years, and later studied in the United States. He specialized in Family Medicine at Howard University Hospital, Washington DC, and worked as a physician for the Dewitt Army Hospital in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. He subsequently practiced at Educe Medical Center in Alexandria, Virginia. During this period he was active in promoting business in his native Ghana and extensively involved in humanitarian work in the deprived Northern part of his country. He became a community leader in North America and was instrumental in institutionalizing democracy in Ghana. He became a Director of the EO group, an energy Company, and President of Educe Incorporated in Ghana.

THE PEDIATRICIAN AND THE PUBLIC

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1949 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 854-861
Author(s):  
PAUL HARPER
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Equal Opportunity ◽  
The Public ◽  
National Medical ◽  
School Of Medicine ◽  
Howard University ◽  
Care Structure ◽  
Good Medical Care

DR. W. MONTAGUE COBB, who prepared the article which follows, is the professor of anatomy at Howard University School of Medicine, Washington, D.C., and is recognized as one of the foremost Negro educators in this country. He is chairman of the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals of the National Medical Association and a member of the National Medical Committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. His article describes the difficulties and obstacles encountered by Negroes in this country in obtaining medical education and shows the paucity of Negro physicians and the dearth of facilities for medical care of our 14,000,000 Negro people. It is generally admitted that the greatest difficulty in our current medical care structure is the appalling lack of personnel and facilities for the care of the Negro. The Negro and white races are so intermingled in their working and living arrangements that the health of one race is profoundly influenced by the state of health of the other. Sickness in the Negro undoubtedly takes its toll among the white race. But the real reason why good medical education and good medical care should be provided for the Negro race is not this, but because they need it for their own happiness and welfare; as citizens of this country they are entitled to equal opportunity to obtain good medical care. If the editors of the column may be permitted to express their own personal views, it is that qualified Negroes should be admitted to our medical schools and should subsequently be given the necessary opportunities to obtain working experience in our hospitals and clinics.

Computers in Medical Care: A Review

1984 ◽  
Vol 23 (02) ◽  
pp. 63-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans W. Gottinger
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Hospital Care ◽  
The Impact

SummaryThis survey provides an overview of major developments on the impact of computers in medical and hospital care over the last 25 years. Though the review emphasizes developments in the U. S. and their multi-faceted impacts upon resource allocation and regulation, a serious attempt is made to track those impacts being universally true in multinational environments.

scholarly journals Multidisciplinary Unit Improves Pregnancy Outcomes in Women with Rheumatic Diseases and Hereditary Thrombophilias: An Observational Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 1487
Author(s):  
Isabel Añón-Oñate ◽  
Rafael Cáliz-Cáliz ◽  
Carmen Rosa-Garrido ◽  
María José Pérez-Galán ◽  
Susana Quirosa-Flores ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Observational Study ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Rheumatic Diseases ◽  
Absolute Risk ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Obstetric Outcomes ◽  
Number Needed To Treat ◽  
Foetal Death

Rheumatic diseases (RD) and hereditary thrombophilias (HT) can be associated with high-risk pregnancies. This study describes obstetric outcomes after receiving medical care at a multidisciplinary consultation (MC) and compares adverse neonatal outcomes (ANOs) before and after medical care at an MC. This study is a retrospective observational study among pregnant women with RD and HT treated at an MC of a university hospital (southern Spain) from 2012 to 2018. Absolute risk reduction (ARR) and number needed to treat (NNT) were calculated. A total of 198 pregnancies were registered in 143 women (112 with RD, 31 with HT), with 191 (96.5%) pregnancies without ANOs and seven (3.5%) pregnancies with some ANOs (five miscarriages and two foetal deaths). Results previous to the MC showed 60.8% of women had more than one miscarriage, with 4.2% experiencing foetal death. MC reduced the ANO rate by AAR = 60.1% (95%CI: 51.6−68.7%). The NNT to avoid one miscarriage was 1.74 (95%CI: 1.5–2.1) and to avoid one foetal death NNT = 35.75 (95CI%: 15.2–90.9). A total of 84.8% of newborns and 93.2% of women did not experience any complication. As a conclusion, the follow-up of RD or HT pregnant women in the MC drastically reduced the risk of ANOs in this population with a previous high risk.

“With colleagues like that, who needs enemies?”:Doctors and Repression under Military and Post-Authoritarian Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 467-505
Author(s):  
Eyal Weinberg
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Political Prisoners ◽  
State University ◽  
Medical Assistance ◽  
Military Rule ◽  
Medical Board ◽  
Military Physician ◽  
The Military ◽  
Healing Arts

As young medical students at Guanabara State University, Luiz Roberto Tenório and Ricardo Agnese Fayad received some of the best medical education offered in 1960s Brazil. For six years, the peers in the same entering class had studied the principles of the healing arts and practiced their application at the university's teaching hospital. They had also witnessed the Brazilian military oust a democratically elected president and install a dictatorship that ruled the country for 21 years (1964–85). After graduating, however, Tenório and Fayad embarked on very distinct paths. The former became a political dissident in opposition to the military regime and provided medical assistance to members of the armed left. The latter joined the armed forces and, as a military physician, participated in the brutal torture and cruel treatment of political prisoners. At the end of military rule, Brazil's medical board would find him guilty of violating the Brazilian code of medical ethics and revoke his license.

Basic Medical Education

JAMA ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 225 (1) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Norman B. Roberg
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Basic Medical Education ◽  
Basic Medical

The Resident in the Non-University Hospital (Continued)

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1962 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 497-498
Author(s):  
EDWIN D. HARRINGTON
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Community Hospital ◽  
University Hospital

I read Dr. Fink's letter in the April issue of Pediatric (29:678, 1962) with great interest. As we have considered this problem at a community hospital in suburban Philadelphia it has seemed to us necessary to answer two questions: (1) What is the problem? and (2) Who is responsible for the solution of the problem? Essentially, we see the problem of adequate inpatient coverage as a service problem, not a problem in medical education. I would agree with Dr. Fink that his patients "would undoubtedly receive better care with a qualified resident on duty."

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