Sir William Thomson, physician.
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ABOUT 35 YEARS AGO a young inexperienced and very nervous student entered Wards 1 and 2 of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, as resident pupil. The same student-I hope I am still capable of learning-stands before you this evening and hopes you will receive him as graciously as Professor W. W. D. Thomson did on that occasion. He shook my hand and welcomed me as a new member of his team. This was all the more unexpected because of what I had experienced in the previous month in a surgical ward where, as resident pupil, that lowest form of hospital life, I had been treated no worse, I suppose, than I deserved. In contrast 15
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The Ulster Medical Journal
دوره 42 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1973