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Charles G. Roland, MD

Arch Intern Med. 1970;126(1):11-14.

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Someone at The Pennsylvania Hospital was saying that the Garrett Building is going to be torn down soon and a new wing put up in its place for teaching and research. Probably Mr. Cheston and The Managers know what they're doing—research is becoming more important all the time, and students have to be taught. But no matter how elegant the new building may be, or how well equipped, it will have to go some to be as good as the old one where I worked for a few months when I was an intern, before the war.* All the other pavilions of the hospital are so graceful and full of history. There were invalids on Ward 1 the day Liberty was proclaimed throughout all the land. Benjamin Rush, Thomas Bond and Polly Girard walked the halls; so did Benjamin Franklin. But nothing of historical importance ever happened in the Garrett . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Mayo Foundation Rochester, Minnesota

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Reprinted by permission of the publisher and the author (McClenahan J: A garland for "Receive." Med Affairs, Autumn 1964, pp 5-8.

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