Milford chronicle., 1958-09-26
State Medical Group
Meets October IL
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always solve the patients problems.
Recently, there has been an in
creasing interest in the close rela-
tionship of religion to healing. A
panel has been formed to discuss
this, comprised of DR.. Kenneth APP
pei, professor of psychiatry at the
University of Pennsylvania School
of Medicine, the Rev. Robert P.
Varley, Rector of st. Peters
Church, Salisbury, Md, who has
written on the subject and done
special work at Georgetown Un-
iversity School of Medicine, and
DR.. ]. Roscoe Elliott, general prac-
titioner and surgeon of Laurel.
Also scheduled for Wednesday
evenings session are the Presiden-
tial Address by DR.. John B. Baker,
of Milford, addresses by DR.. Gerald
A. Beatty, president of the New
Castle County Medical Society and
DR.. James r. McNinch, president
of Kent County Medical Society. DR..
Norman L. Cannon, Secretary OF
the Society, will report on the
September % meeting of the Soci-
etys' governing body, its House of
Delegates. Dean Lloyd E. Gressle of
Wilmington's Cathedral Church of
st. John will speak the invocation.
The doctors will be offered a
choice of concurrent programs dur
ing Wednesday afternoons session.
A review of techniques in the emer-
gency treatment of the acute psy-
chotic patient will be presented by
DR.. Theodore l.. Define, Superin-
tendent and Director of the Della
ware State Hospital in Farnhurst,
will discuss commitment and legal
procedures in this state. The ses-
sion will be presented with the CO.
operation of the Delaware Academy
of General Practice and the Mental
Health Association, and is part of
a longer series being offered by
these groups.
Meanwhile the doctors need to
plan his future without pension
plans or society security will be
recognized by two prominent Will
mington investment officers. Mr..
Edward Hagenmeir of the Far
mers Bank will discuss investing
for security and retirement, after
which Mr.. Endsley Fairman of the
Wilmington Trust Company will
deal with the problems involved
with insufficient planning of
estates.
The two groups will join to hear
DIR. Samuel Polsky of the Philadel-
phia Medico-Legal Institute moder-
ate a panel on the doctors respon-
sibility to his patient regarding
new drugs and methods, procedures
in the doctors absence, explain
ations of treatments, and similar
problems.
Panel discussions of symptoms
of the chest and abdomen will claim
the doctors attention Thursday
morning. DIR. s. H. Eisman and
DR.. R. L. Mayock, associate profess
sors of clinical medicine at the
University of Pennsylvania School
of Medicine, and DR.. E. L. Foltz,
asst. professor of medicine at the
same school, will talk on pulmon-
ary function studies in diagnosis
and prognosis, and sesitivity tests
to antibiotics. The medical and'sur-
gical aspects of abdominal pain will
be reviewed in a panel by DR.. j..
R. McNinch, DR., j. A.. ]. Forest, and
DIR. o. J. Pollack, all of the Kent
General Hospital Staff, and by DR..
A. E. Bacon, Jr., Wilmington in
ternist.
Following the second panel, the
medical societies elect presidents
year in advance so that the in
coming officer may anticipate and
prepare for his term of Office. The
election will be followed by lun-
cheon hosted by the New Castle
County Medical Society.
DR.. e. M. Bluestore, consultant
TO New YOrk's MOntefiOre Hospital