Word: doctored
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Next to the opportunity for contact with humanity, the excitement of the profession offers the greatest appeal. The doctor must every day cut the pack of humanity, and his unfailing optimism shows that he usually turns up what is best in human nature. The quality of experience is as important as its quantity...
...third place, the doctor brings a flag of truce to every quarrel between man and man. In every day life as well as on the battlefield he is always welcome and unarmed...
...public, moreover, is interested in the medical profession and its advances as it is in no other profession. The physician, unlike the clergyman or lawyer, who must succeed in the face of prejudice, is greatly assisted by public interest and sympathy. The christian scientist, says Doctor Cabot, is the only opponent of the medical profession. Medical news is the best news, for the public wishes to know of every new discovery...
...appeal of the medical profession to a virile man is the opportunity which it offers him of bringing into play every talent, mental or muscular, which he possesses. A keen eye, a sharp ear, ability in expression, tact, sympathy with all sorts of people, all come into play. The doctor as well as the lawyer must know how to cross-examine; like the translator he must know how to interpret; like the teacher he must know how to expound and explain. Every talent is of use, and a little fault like faintness at the sight of blood, which is easily...
Finally Dr. Cabot considered the future of medicine. He said that we are at the beginning of a new era in the development of medical science. There is the opportunity for discovering a great cure. Doctor Flexner, whom Rockefeller put in charge of his Institute in the face of the strongest opposition, has discovered a serum which is a sure cure for meningitis and also a preventative for infantile paralysis...