MEDICAL FILMS

[摘要] Medifilm Report II: 16 mm., black and white, sound, showing time 33 minutes. Produced in 1960 by Fordel Films Inc., New York for the Schering Corporation and the American Medical Association. Procurable on loan (no service charge) from American Medical Association, Motion Picture Library, 535 North Dearborn St., Chicago 10.Produced for physicians who were unable to attend the 109th Annual Meeting in Miami Beach, this film features scientific exhibits, lectures, and panel discussions. Host-narrator is Dr. Ralph Jones, Jr., of the Dade County (Florida) Medical Society and Professor of Medicine at the University of Miami.Exhibits covered include those of Dr. E. Sterling Nichol of the Miami Heart Institute, who discusses long-term use of anticoagulants for the prevention and treatment of recurrent myocardial infarction; Dr. Donald Berkowitz of Philadelphia, who explains the difficult problems of diagnosis and management of the patient with chronic functional diarrhea; the Illinois State Medical Society, which presents a history of medicine in an unusual collection of postage stamps; Dr. Robert A. Kuhn of Morristown, N.J., who describes the diagnostic technique of retrograde brachial angiography in patients with stroke; and Dr. Gordon McHardy of New Orleans, who presents "current concepts of duodenal ulcer."Panel discussions are presented through interviews with Dr. Robert E. Olson, who reports on the nutrition symposium; and Dr. J. Walter Wilson of Los Angeles, who moderated a panel which discussed the use of griseofulvin in the treatment of certain fungous infections of the scalp, nails, groin, and feet.Viewers will also meet Dr. Philip Thorek of Chicago as he lectures on the importance of differentiating between duodenal and gastric ulcers, since "every gastric ulcer is a potential carcinoma until proven otherwise."

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