Annual report of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital : 1939.

  • Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.
Date:
1940
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Credit: Annual report of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital : 1939. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tions of these reports. The Old Home Week” was a delightful and stimulating gathering of some of the best medical brains in the country, at Dr. Christian’s invita¬ tion and under his direction. At one of the clinics in the Brigham amphitheatre when most of the Profes- sors-in-Chief pro tempore and The Professor” were all in the front row, a student was heard to remark, There are more medical brains in that one row than have ever been accumulated in a single row anywhere.” Those of us who heard the clinics and lectures, and attended the ward rounds, would readily agree. It was another and a superlative demonstration of the respect and admiration which the other great men in medicine hold for our Professor-in-Chief now Emeritus. Fur¬ thermore, it was proof of the hold which the Brigham Hospital exerts upon any one who has ever been a mem¬ ber of its staff—that so many of the Pro-Terns,” as they are cordially known, should return at such a busy time to walk the long corridors, sit in the hard seats and take part in one more of the characteristic Brigham family meetings. i But what of our own little X-Ray Department? It has had the busiest year in its existence, with a total of 15,679 patient-visits, some 3,800 of them for X-ray treatments and the others for diagnostic procedures. In analyzing the increase in work done, it is found that all sources have contributed—medical wards more than surgical wards, medical out-door department less than surgical out-door department, and private patients less than either. The greatest single source is the surgical out-door department, whence come some 5,000 patients each year, many of them for fracture X-rays or fol¬ low-up X-rays. Unfortunately we do not have the clerical help necessary to index and cross-index our [3i]