April 2024

testing, testing, etc

by faithgibson on April 15, 2024

in Women's Reproductive Rights

Is the problem in my computer or the WP program? Inquiring minds want to know!

“Twilight Sleep: Simple Discoveries in Painless Childbirth” ~ Dr J. Whitridge Williams ideas for a national system of Lying-in hospitals

by faithgibson on April 10, 2024

in Dr. William's 1914 Book, Historic Publications

A report on a 1914 book by Dr. Henry Smith Williams and Dr. J. W. Williams Twilight Sleep: Simple Discoveries in Painless Childbirth 1914 This post begins with a synopsis of the three critical aspects of Dr. J. Whitridge Williams’s “grand plan” as discussed in the 1914 Twilight Sleep book The primary issue for Dr […]

Original publication of Dr. Ololade Olakanmi, MD reporting the long-lasting negative consequences of the 1910 Flexner Report (published in the 1990s)

by faithgibson April 9, 2024

The AMA, NMA, and the Flexner Report of 1910 Prepared by Ololade Olakanmi For the Writing Group on the History of African Americans and the Medical Profession Summary There are several direct links between Medical Education in the United States and Canada: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (1910), commonly […]

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The Amazing Logistics of Flexner’s Fieldwork ~ Mark D. Hiatt, MD, MBA ~ originally published in 2000

by faithgibson April 9, 2024

The Amazing Logistics of Flexner’s Fieldwork by  Mark D. Hiatt, MD, MBA 2000 An extremely entertaining, yet thought-provoking account that questions the veracity of  Abraham Flexer’s famous 1910 “Flexner Report” Originally published in the Medical Sentinel 2000;5(5):167-168. Copyright © 2000 Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS). Dr. Hiatt is a resident in diagnostic radiology at the […]

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