The Warrens and other pioneering clinician pathologists of the Massachusetts General Hospital during its early years: An appreciation on the 200th anniversary of the hospital founding

Modern Pathology

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1285-1294

  Young, Robert H ^a   Louis, David N ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Calvin Ellis; J Collins Warren; JBS Jackson; John Bacon; John Collins Warren; Oliver Wendell Holmes; Reginald Heber Fitz; William Fiske Whitney

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; BREAST DISEASE; BREAST EXAMINATION; CONSULTATION; CURRICULUM; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MICROSCOPY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PARAMEDICAL EDUCATION; PATHOLOGIST; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGEON; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ANNIVERSARIES AND SPECIAL EVENTS; BOSTON; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; PATHOLOGY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL;

EID: 80053572642     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: 15300285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.2011.132     Document Type: Article

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