Summary

From over 300 essays the late Dr. Massey wrote between 1973 and 2005 for his popular monthly columns in Connecticut Medicine, the state medical journal, the seventy in this collection best demonstrate his breadth of scholarship, concerns about medicine, and skills as a writer and teacher. For ease of reading, the articles are organized into eleven sections by topic, such as the care of patients, medical education, growing old, death and dying, technology, ethics and morality, and the history of medicine. As timely as they are important, these essays lend themselves to discussions in medical schools and other teaching institutions, address issues physicians in practice face almost daily, and provide a touchstone for all citizens concerned about the practice of humanistic medicine today.

Author Biography

Martin Duke, MD, editor, is on the Editorial Board of Connecticut Medicine. After receiving his degree from New York University School of Medicine in 1954, he had a private practice in cardiology in the Manchester, CT, served as Director of Medical Education and Chief of Cardiology at the Manchester Memorial Hospital, and held a teaching appointment at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine until his retirement. He is the author of two books and over 100 articles on medical topics.

Foreword	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Medical Education	p. 1
The Role of Medical Educators	p. 3
American Medical Education: No One Does It Better	p. 5
Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down	p. 7
Marketable Skills or an Education?	p. 9
L'Allegro	p. 11
Quite Random Notes to a Young Doctor	p. 13
Medical Care and the Art of Medicine	p. 17
Down-sizing Time: Efficient but Hardly Effective	p. 19
Man Has an Inborn Craving for Medicine	p. 21
So Little Time	p. 25
Too Much Science?	p. 27
Night Thoughts on End-of-the Century Medicine	p. 29
Medicine: Are We on the Threshold of Another Golden Age?	p. 31
Medical Ethics and Principles	p. 35
Virtues, Not Values: Medical Ethics, Not Business Ethos	p. 37
A Matter of Principle	p. 39
The Nothnagel Principle	p. 41
Rule 6, Never Take Yourself Seriously	p. 43
Surrendering Clinical Judgment	p. 45
Weather Patterns	p. 47
The Passing of Sunday Peace	p. 49
Albert Schweitzer's Simple Philosophy	p. 51
Doing Right or Being Right?	p. 53
Growing Old	p. 57
The Last of Life, for Which the First Was Made	p. 59
O Tempora, O Mores, et Alia	p. 61
Geriatrics: Defining a New Specialty	p. 63
Health-Care Reform and Long-Term Care	p. 65
Facing Our Mortality: Death and Dying	p. 67
No Easy Matter	p. 69
Sustainable Progress: Is It Possible?	p. 71
Requiescas, Sophie	p. 75
Drosophila and Donne's Shroud	p. 77
When the Time for Heroics Has Passed	p. 81
How Much Life Extension Can We Stand?	p. 85
I Will Give No Deadly Medicine to Anyone if Asked, Nor Suggest Any Such Counsel	p. 87
Last Things: Planning Ahead	p. 89
The Undiscovered Country	p. 91
Tragic Fall or Angle of Repose?	p. 93
Technology	p. 97
"Things Are in the Saddle"	p. 99
Words Without End	p. 101
Cost of Care or Burden of Disease?	p. 103
Fides Medici	p. 105
Language and Writing	p. 107
On Words, Style, Grammar, and Other Matters	p. 109
"De Gustibus-"	p. 113
IRV, sGaw, Raw, and Other Matters	p. 115
In Praise of Being Amateur	p. 117
The History of Medicine	p. 119
The History Seminar	p. 121
Twilight of the Heroes?	p. 123
Getting to the Heart of the Matter	p. 125
Curiosity: An Aperitif	p. 127
History, Hot and Cold	p. 129
The History Elective	p. 131
It Began with the Lensmakers	p. 133
How Much Can We Learn from History?	p. 135
Medical Figures from the Past: Some Favorites	p. 139
Osler as Hero	p. 141
Eponyms and Old Friends	p. 143
Sir Thomas Browne, 1605-1682	p. 145
Benjamin Rush: Doctor and Patriot, 1745-1813	p. 147
Robert Koch, 1843-1910	p. 149
Virchow's Legacy	p. 151
Emil von Behring and Diphtheria	p. 153
Pierre Louis and His Numerical Method	p. 155
The 100th Anniversary of Local Anesthesia	p. 157
"Do Not Think, But Try; Be Patient, Be Accurate"	p. 159
Metchnikoff's Starfish	p. 161
Books and Reading	p. 165
No Requirements, Please!	p. 167
William Osler: Humanist	p. 169
Summer Reading	p. 173
Doctor Stories	p. 175
A Potpourri	p. 177
Leisure, an Antidote for Phrenitis	p. 179
Intemperance or Intelligence?	p. 181
Selective Memories a Half Century Old	p. 183
The Amazing Atomic Keyboard	p. 187
Acknowledgments	p. 191
Robert U. Massey, MD, A Biographical Sketch	p. 192
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Reflections on Medicine: Essays by Robert U. Massey, M.D.

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