Transactions of the Section on Surgery, General and Abdominal of the American Medical Association at the Annual Session (Volume 66) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915. Excerpt: ... PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECTION Tuesday, June 22--Afternoon The meeting was called to order at 2:15 by the chairman, Dr. Charles H. Peck, New York. Dr. M. Estes, chairman of the American Surgical Association, presented the following resolution: Resolved, That the Surgical Section heartily recommend the standard form of fracture report submitted by the American Surgical Association; and be it further Resolved, That the section present this standard form of fracture report to the House of Delegates with the request that it be adopted as the standard form of fracture report by the American Medical Association. The resolution was duly seconded, and, without discussion, carried. Concerning the above resolution, in the House of Delegates, Thursday afternoon, June 24, Dr. Dean Lewis, Delegate from the Section on Surgery, asked unanimous consent, which was granted, to introduce the following, which was referred to the Board of Trustees: At the meeting of the American Surgical Association the Committee on Fractures made the following explanations and recommendations: The work of this committee has been greatly hampered by the inadequacy of the records submitted for its consideration. A large proportion of the cases had to be rejected entirely, and most of them were so incomplete as to make deductions based upon them possibly misleading. The first step in the betterment of practice is the study of results achieved by present day methods. An adequate study is impossible without adequate records. The committee strongly urges the American Surgical Association to set its seal of approval upon the standard form of record submitted by the committee, and to further petition the American Medical Association to do the same. The committee also urges each member of this Associatio...