BULLETIN OF THE NEWV YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE
JANUARY 1979
VOL. 55, No. I
OPENING REMARKS* JOSEPH POST, M. D. Professor of Clinical Medicine New York University School of Medicine Attending Physician Lenox Hill Hospital New York, New York
AS chairman of the Committee on Medicine in Society I welcome you to our 1978 Annual Health Conference. Dr. H. R. Nayer and the other members of our committee have put together a probing and provocative agenda. The hospital is a central place in the health-care-delivery system, in teaching recent medical school graduates, and in the continuing education of those of us whose graduation is not so recent. There are new complexities in its function and in the interrelations of its personnel. Moreover, for the first time in our history, the period of expansionism is over and new questions are being raised about costs, relevance to health care, and the management of these institutions. I am certain that these will be two interesting days. *Presented as part of the 1978 Annual Health Conference of the New York Academy of Medicine, The Hospital Reconsidered: A New Perspective held May I and 2, 1978.
JANUARY 1979
VOL. 55, No. I
OPENING REMARKS* JOSEPH POST, M. D. Professor of Clinical Medicine New York University School of Medicine Attending Physician Lenox Hill Hospital New York, New York
AS chairman of the Committee on Medicine in Society I welcome you to our 1978 Annual Health Conference. Dr. H. R. Nayer and the other members of our committee have put together a probing and provocative agenda. The hospital is a central place in the health-care-delivery system, in teaching recent medical school graduates, and in the continuing education of those of us whose graduation is not so recent. There are new complexities in its function and in the interrelations of its personnel. Moreover, for the first time in our history, the period of expansionism is over and new questions are being raised about costs, relevance to health care, and the management of these institutions. I am certain that these will be two interesting days. *Presented as part of the 1978 Annual Health Conference of the New York Academy of Medicine, The Hospital Reconsidered: A New Perspective held May I and 2, 1978.
