Minority Politics in the House of Medicine: The Physicians Forum and the New York County Medical Society, 1938-1965

1999 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Pacht Brickman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Medical Society ◽  
County Medical Society ◽  
Minority Politics ◽  
York County

MEDICAL FILMS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1961 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 172-172
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Infant Mortality ◽  
Neurological Status ◽  
Medical Society ◽  
County Medical Society ◽  
Obstetrical Care ◽  
York County ◽  
Live Action ◽  
Normal Neonate ◽  
Stimulation Of

Resuscitation of the Newborn: 16 mm., color, sound, showing time 25 minutes. Prepared by the Special Committee on Infant Mortality of the Medical Society of the County of New York. Produced in 1960 by Sturgis Grant Productions, New York. Procurable on loan from Smith, Kline & French Laboratories, Medical Film Center, 1500 Spring Garden St., Philadelphia 1. "Resuscitation of the Newborn" is based on a report by the Infant Mortality Committee of the New York County Medical Society and illustrates the essential principles and techniques for resuscitation of infants who do not breathe or whose respiration is irregular at birth. The film describes the physiology of prenatal and postnatal oxygenation and states the factors that may contribute to producing respiratory depression in the newborn. The film then depicts—through live action in the delivery room and animation—the procedures and apparatus necessary for effective resuscitation. By diagram the placental and neonatal circulation are clearly portrayed. The processes by which respiration is initiated and also depressed are well illustrated. The essentials of the examination during pregnancy are briefly touched upon. More emphasis is directed to good obstetrical care during labor with special observation as to what is happening to the infant to be born. The usual procedures for aspiration of nasopharyngeal fluids and stimulation of respirations in the normal neonate are given. The Apgar scoring system is demonstrated by which the circulatory, respiratory, and neurological status of the newborn infant can be evaluated. There is a good demonstration of the stimulation of respiration by sole-heel slapping as well as by laryngoscopic examination and aspiration.

CHILD ABUSE: THE ROLE OF THE PHYSICIAN AND THE HOSPITAL

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 799-803
Author(s):  
Edmund N. Joyner
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Child Abuse ◽  
New York State ◽  
Family Court ◽  
Medical Society ◽  
Public Agencies ◽  
County Medical Society ◽  
The Family

We are attempting to do the job which our legislature mandated for public agencies. The legislature did not mandate the money to allow these agencies to effectively fulfill their responsibilities, nor were provisions made for a coordinating individual or agency to supervise and administer the procedures which were mandated. Until these deficiencies are corrected, the hospital must assume a much broader role in child abuse. The hospital is the logical agency which can immediately bridge the wide gap now existing in long-term protection and rehabilitation. That hospitals may be willing to step in and perform this function is suggested by the fact that as of June 1, 1971, 18 hospitals formed Child Abuse Committees at the request of the County Medical Society of New York. If under the present laws of New York state the hospitals are to take on this added burden–and we believe that they should–it is imperative that their work be given support and that recommendations of the hospitals' Child Abuse Committees carry great weight in the deliberations and decisions of the Bureau of Child Welfare and the Family Court.

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