Date of Award

7-1951

Degree Type

Master's Essay - Restricted

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Medical

First Advisor

Joseph F. Kuzma

Second Advisor

E.J. Drummond

Abstract

The choice of a suitable subject for use in preparation of the thesis was not made without considerable deliberation. In the clinical practice of medicine unsolved problems are encountered dally. I sought for a clinical subject close to the dally duties of the resident staff.

In passing through the wards of any large charity hospital today, one is impressed by the preponderance of patients in the older age groups. This has come about largely in the past decade and has altered the type of care required of the attending and resident staffs of all the clinical services. It has been the impression of the surgical staff that more numerous procedures of greater magnitude were being performed on aged patients than heretofore. It was my feeling that useful information might be obtained from a study concentrating on the group of patients which now predominates in the wards of the Surgical Services of the Milwaukee County Hospital.

Comments

A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School, Marquette University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Surgery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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