Annual report of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital : 1927.

  • Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.
Date:
1927
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Credit: Annual report of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital : 1927. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    creased in number as they now are, were made more comfortable. The X-Ray Department has been enlarged and im¬ proved until now it is equal to and perhaps is superior to any other establishment of a similar nature in the city. Under Dr. Sosman’s direction over nine thou¬ sand patients have been seen, including ward cases, Out-Door Department and private ward cases, and private visiting patients of moderate means sent by outside doctors to take advantage of low charges. Dr. Reginald Fitz has given important and valuable attention during the past year to the care of the patients and the instruction of the house-officers and students in the Out-Door Department. It is reported to the Board that the appointment system in the Out- Door Department is working well. Under this sys¬ tem, while provision is always made for seeing at once those patients who require immediate attention, other patients may make appointments to be seen at their convenience at any time during the day; they do not all have to come as formerly, and as they do now at most of the Out-Door Departments in the City, at a certain hour in the morning and stay until they are at last seen and treated. Under this system, also, the doctors can more nearly give adequate time to the examination of each patient. Attention is called to the chapter in Dr. Christian’s report on the discovery of a cure for pernicious anemia completed this year by Dr. George R. Minot and Dr. William P. Murphy, both on the staff of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. This discovery of in¬ calculable value, was developed in our medical labora¬ tories, situated as they are near the wards where the patients could be studied in connection with this scien-