PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE AND MEDICAL RESEARCH TRAINING

[摘要] Dr. Cicely Williams delivered a challenging Blackfan Lecture, reproduced elsewhere in this issue of the Journal,1 at the Children's Hospital Medical Center on May 30, 1973. It should be carefully studied by all pediatricians, and particularly by pediatricians involved in academic programs. Dr. Williams speaks with the experience and wisdom gathered during more than 50 years of service to the field of maternal and child health and with unimpeachable academic credentials. She first described kwashiorkor in the Western medical literature in 1931.Dr. Williams' message to academic pediatrics is loud and clear. It may be paraphrased in the following manner: "Be off," she states, "with your ultrascience, your superspecialists and your rapt attention to the few with so called interesting illnesses.

[学科分类] 儿科学