Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: John D. Rockefeller

  • The germ of laziness

    Enrique Chaves-CarballoOverland Park, Kansas, United States Rockefeller Foundation The Rockefeller Foundation was chartered on June 1909 “to promote the well-being and to advance the civilization of the peoples of the United States and its territories and possessions and of foreign lands in the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge, in the prevention and relief of suffering,…

  • William Osler: Clinician and teacher with a pediatric interest

    Göran WettrellLund, Sweden Sir William Osler has been described as one of the greatest physicians of his time, especially known for his bedside medicine and teaching (Figure 1). He has also been characterized as “a pediatric-minded worker within the widespread wine-yard of internal medicine.” As one of the founders of the American Pediatric Society and…