Mathematics for the Physiologist and Physician

1920 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 115-123
Author(s):  
H. B. Williams
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
College Education ◽  
Large Measure ◽  
Specific Term ◽  
Practice Of Medicine ◽  
Study Of Medicine ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics ◽  
Trained Physician ◽  
Average High School

It seems to have been very generally assumed that a student intending to enter upon the study of medicine needs little if any preparation in mathematics beyond arithmetic and perhaps a little algebra and geometry. I am informed that students in Columbia College intending to enter the College of Physicians and Surgeons, have been definitely advised by a member of the medical faculty that they would have little if any need for mathematical training and that they would better spend their time in preparation along other lines of study. The physician who gave this advice has been very successful in the practice of medicine and is well known as an educator. I have heard similar views expressed by another well-known and successful New York physician. I presume that the views of these eminent medical men are fairly representative of the opinion of the majority of the medical profession today and inasmuch as the student who contemplates a career in medicine naturally — and very properly —seeks the advice of older men in the profession, it is not surprising that these students come to their professional studies with a mathematical training which is meager in the extreme. This attitude of indifference, sometimes approaching hostility toward the teaching of mathematics to prospective medical students, seems to have sprung in part from the circumstance that many of the shining lights in the medical profession have attained their position in the firmament without having felt the need of more powerful mathematical aids than the average high-school courses afford. We are still hardly beyond the period when similar arguments were supposed to prove that a college education is a superfluous ornament for men who expect to spend their lives in what for want of a more specific term is usually called “business.” I believe I shall be able to show that although a large measure of usefulness may be attained in the field of medicine by the non-mathematically trained physician, nevertheless the inclusion of such training in his preparation for life will enable him to extend his efforts into a wider field of useful endeavor.

Psychosocial Aspects of Terminal Care, edited by B. Schoenberg, A. C. Carr, D. Peretz, and A. H. Kutscher. New York: Columbia University Press, 1972

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-129
Author(s):  
Richard Galdston
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Terminal Care ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Medical Specialty ◽  
Psychosocial Aspects ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Public Discussion ◽  
The Past ◽  
Recent Establishment

Thanatology, the study of death and dying, is a medical specialty of recent establishment. Over the past two or three decades, there has been a marked increased interest in this topic and in the number of articles and books devoted to its discussion. It has been said that this development is due to a lifting of earlier taboos against public discussion and that the medical profession had been remiss in its failure to provide a more open, forthright airing of its experience with death.

EDUCATION

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1956 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-303
Author(s):  
Tyree C. Wyatt ◽  
William D. Alsever
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Clinical Teaching ◽  
State University ◽  
Basic Sciences ◽  
Pediatric Pathology ◽  
Large Measure ◽  
Clinical Teachers ◽  
Actual Patient ◽  
Clinical Clerkships ◽  
Science Training

THIS is a report of the plan for teaching basic pediatric pathology in connection with ward teaching during clinical clerkships, which has been in use for several years in the Pediatric Department of the State University of New York at Syracuse. Its success as one of the most practical ways of drawing the preclinical basic sciences closer to actual patient care may be of interest to teachers, either in pathology or on the wards, who feel that there is still too wide a gap between the preclinical years and the clinical teaching years. This problem has been one of long recognition and concern, varying in degree and intensity in different settings dependent in a large measure on the background in basic science training and experience of the clinical teachers.

In Suburbia

2019 ◽  
pp. 94-114
Author(s):  
Chester E. Finn ◽  
Andrew E. Scanlan
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Advanced Placement ◽  
College Education ◽  
Montgomery County ◽  
High Status ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Deep Roots ◽  
Suburban School Districts ◽  
Suburban High Schools

This chapter explores the Advanced Placement (AP) program in suburban school districts. Even as urban centers like Fort Worth and New York typify today's livelier venues for AP expansion, the program has deep roots in the prosperous suburbs that abut them. Along with elite private schools, upscale suburban high schools were among the program's earliest adopters, and they remain natural habitats for a nationally benchmarked, high-status venture that gives strong students a head start on the college education that they are almost certainly going to get and perhaps an extra advantage in gaining admission to the universities they aspire to. Yet they are also ripe for attention as they struggle with equity and growth issues of their own. The chapter then reviews two well-known yet very different suburban districts: Dublin City Schools in Ohio and Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland. Both are celebrated as education successes in their states and both boast long and impressive AP track records. Both, however, face distinctive challenges as they seek to serve today's constituents. Their stories illustrate how AP is functioning in places that know it well yet continue to evolve with it.

“Working in the Next Present” in Aurora and New York 2140

2019 ◽  
pp. 170-188
Author(s):  
Robert Markley
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
New York ◽  
Solar System ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Large Measure ◽  
Narrative Structures ◽  
Financial Speculation ◽  
Terrestrial Life

The final chapter considers Robinson’s two most recent novels, Aurora (2015) and New York 2140 (2017), that offer different visions of the future. Aurora drives a stake through the heart of interstellar romance by depicting the failed mission of a multigenerational starship to colonize another solar system. Narrated in large measure by the spaceship’s artificial intelligence, Aurora brilliantly experiments with the narrative structures of sf even as it explores the ecological and biogeographical limits of terrestrial life. New York 2140, in contrast, depicts the struggle for the city’s political and environmental future in a future where a sea-level rise of forty feet above today’s level has occurred and rampant financial speculation still drives a capitalist worldview. Rather than a dystopian struggle for survival, however, the novel offers a utopian comedy of political and ecological regeneration.

Accessibility and Usability Issues

2012 ◽  
pp. 128-148
Author(s):  
Eugene Monaco ◽  
Stephen Lackey ◽  
Edward Skawinski ◽  
Rebecca Stanley ◽  
Carol Day Young
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Iterative Process ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
New York State ◽  
It Professionals ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Large Measure ◽  
Legal Standards ◽  
Agency Management

Democratic governments seek to serve all citizens equally and fairly. Achieving this ideal in e-governance will in large measure be determined by government’s commitment to the development of websites and web applications that encourage and enable participation by all. Accessibility and usability are gateways to participation. This chapter examines the professional and legal standards for accessibility and usability as well as studies on actual implementation. A survey of New York State webmasters found that while IT professionals considered usability and accessibility important, none of them rated user satisfaction as excellent. Agency management was perceived as less aware of the importance of usability and accessibility than IT professionals. Assuring usability and accessibility is an on-going, iterative process that requires continual accountability and involvement of user/citizens, political leaders, and IT professionals.

Nebraska, New England, New York

2020 ◽  
pp. 17-59
Author(s):  
Melissa J. Homestead
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Family History ◽  
New England ◽  
Young Adulthood ◽  
Willa Cather ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
College Education ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
The Past ◽  
Adolescence And Young Adulthood

This chapter describes Edith Lewis’s family history, childhood, and education as a background to her first meeting with Willa Cather in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1903. Because of Lewis’s deeply rooted New England family history, her Nebraska childhood, her elite eastern college education, and her plans to move to New York to pursue literary work, Cather found powerfully concentrated in Lewis two geographically located versions of the past she valued: the Nebraska of her own childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood, and a New England–centered literary culture she encountered through reading. Cather also glimpsed in Lewis the future to which she herself aspired, the glittering promise of literary New York.

Codification and the Origins of Physician-Patient Privilege

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-102
Author(s):  
MILES WILKINSON
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
The United States ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Professional Status ◽  
Rapid Spread ◽  
American Law ◽  
Judicial Proceedings ◽  
Physician Patient

Abstract:This essay examines the origins of physician-patient privilege in the United States. It concentrates an 1828 New York law that protected medical confidentiality in the courtroom—the first statutory guarantee of physician-patient privilege—as well as the rapid spread of privilege statutes throughout the nineteenth century. Using the published notes of the authors of New York’s influential statute alongside other primary sources, I argue that these early statutes are best explained as the result of nineteenth-century efforts to codify American law. The medical profession took little note of physician-patient privilege until much later, indicating that privilege emerged not as a protection of doctors’ professional status, nor as a means of protecting patients in the courtroom, but rather as an inadvertent offshoot of attempts to streamline and simply judicial proceedings. It is perhaps because of these unsystematic origins that physician-patient privilege still remains such an unevenly applied rule in American courtrooms.

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