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PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS

JOHN H. STOKES, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1937;36(6):1129-1148.

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I propose to talk today in the harsh dogmatic phraseology of a field officer who has spent twenty-eight years of his life on the educational front of medicine, twenty years of it in posts of responsibility. I use the military terminology intentionally. I have become convinced that the struggle for the advancement of knowledge, on which the right of a discipline to recognition fundamentally depends, is, as Krogh has said, a guerrilla warfare against the unknown. In that warfare the attributes of the individual mean far more than the maneuvers and discipline of the mass. I have been interested in the development of the individual soldier and am today deeply concerned that he be not too much machined in the current moves toward organization of graduate training and licensure for practice. It is of him that I would speak, holding his selection, his training, his accomplishments and his possibilities as . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Footnotes
Read at the Sixtieth Annual Meeting of the American Dermatological Association, Inc., Cresco, Pa., June 3, 1937.

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