A care team from Massachusetts General Hospital was among the first to arrive in Halifax in 1917 to help after a deadly blast.
A care team from Massachusetts General Hospital was among the first to arrive in Halifax in 1917 to help after a deadly blast.
Norton Folsom, MD, superintendent of Massachusetts General Hospital from 1872 to 1877, is remembered as a man of “good temper and invariable kindness.”
This lifesaving treatment would not have happened without scientific collaboration, persistence, and serendipity.
Henry Ingersoll Bowditch, MD, a longtime Mass General physician, abolitionist and public health pioneer, was no stranger to controversy.
Traffic tie-ups that delayed patient care in the mid 1960s led to the establishment of telemedicine at Mass General.
A small silver lining to the tragedy can be found in the advances in burn care that were made in treating survivors.
Mass General played a small but pivotal role in the education of a pioneering female doctor who helped women physicians gain equal recognition in Massachusetts.
Scovil was one of the first nurses to be formally trained at Mass General and was a prolific author and advice columnist for women.
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