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Virtually every physician in the world has, at one time or another, read the Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital (the reports of the Clinicopathological Conferences [CPCs]) in the Journal. Based on the case method of teaching medicine espoused by Dr. Walter Cannon,¹ these conferences were established at the Massachusetts General Hospital by Dr. Richard Cabot, an internist and faculty member at Harvard Medical School, during the first decade of the 20th century.² Under his direction, the teaching of medicine through the study of "actual cases of disease" became a popular feature at Harvard Medical School, at the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Departments of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School — both in Boston.

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