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C L BROWN

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PubMed1952

The clinical picture of pancreatic insufficiency.

Minor degrees of pancreatic insufficiency may go unrecognized. There is a paucity of symptoms and physical findings in mild and moderate degrees of insufficiency and in such circumstances laboratory methods are necessary to determine the presence of insufficiency. The clinical picture when insufficiency is well established may be characterized by loss in weight; vague indigestion; voluminous, light-colored, glistening stools in which fat globulets may be seen; changes in the concentration of pancreatic enzymes in the blood indicative of lowered pancreatic function; diminished amounts of pancreatic enzymes in the duodenal juice, and the related poor digestion of fat and protein in the food. Lowered tolerance of carbohydrate, as found in diabetes mellitus, may or may not be present. The location and character of the disease in the pancreas causing the insufficiency may or may not be apparent.

Diabetes Mellitus↗
PubMed1952

Changing concepts in medical treatment.

In a community-even a small one-where physicians established in practice have intensity of purpose, continuing curiosity, healthy skepticism and the spirit of research, the medical atmosphere is one to attract and welcome young physicians who are recently graduated and eager to apply the knowledge gained from the specialists who taught them in medical schools. As the modern laboratory and other facilities and equipment now in use in teaching institutions become available in more and more small communities, general practice remote from the medical centers probably will have increasing allure for neophyte physicians upon whom great influence is being brought to bear to induce them to practice medicine where the need is greatest. Knowledge of the changes in concepts of medical treatment that have taken place in the life-span of the physicians already established in a community will help the young physician fit himself congenially and effectively into the methods of practice of his elder colleagues, with mutual benefit.

Humans↗