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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...should every U.S. medical-school graduate spend one or two years as an intern in a hospital before entering private practice? Answering his own question last week, Dr. William Lee Hart, dean of the University of Texas' Southwestern Medical School, suggested that it was time to do away with the whole "outmoded" internship system. Instead, said Dr. Hart, a fledgling doctor fresh out of school should put in a year's practical training as assistant to a small-town doctor...
...medical schools are now closely linked with hospitals, Dr. Hart argued, the young doctor no longer needs further practical experience on hospital wards. At Southwestern, for example, students spend seven out of their twelve terms in Dallas hospitals-"which ought to be enough." In fact, said Dr. Hart, the intern system sometimes does more harm than good. Under a "hierarchy of hospital staffers" the intern comes to depend on continuing supervision, which may make his transition to independent practice more difficult...
...story of a Negro intern (Sidney Poitier) who tries and fails to save the life of a white patient in a county hospital. When the patient dies, his brother (Richard Widmark), a thief and pathological Negro-hater, refuses to permit an autopsy that might vindicate the doctor. Himself a patient in the hospital, Widmark baits Poitier mercilessly, dupes the dead man's ex-wife (Linda Darnell) into igniting a race riot. Poitier, who gets the nasty job of treating the riot's white victims, finally forces an autopsy by falsely confessing to the patient's murder...
...Another squirted a fire extinguisher at him. The fire puffed out. Dominick had made no sound, but he had endured fearful burns. His shirt was all but gone, he had breathed flame, and his throat and lungs were scorched. The rescue work stopped and Dr. Harold Berson, a young intern from Coney Island Hospital, was lowered to him. He greased the burns and gave Dominick morphine; a priest was lowered, performed the last rites of the Catholic Church...