Most Orleanians are vaguely proud of our massive Charity Hospital and its reputation for excellent medical service.
Most of us are aware of the busy—and expanding—Tulane and LSU medical schools.
We have heard of the visitors, often famous, who come to New Orleans for difficult surgery.
But few of us fully realize the remarkable stature this city has attained as a medical center, the sheer size of our medical plant, or the advanced techniques employed by New Orleans doctors in everyday practice. In a series of articles now appearing in The Item. Reporter Davis describes some of the impressive achievements of New Orleans medicine.
We commend these articles to our readers.
They were prepared with painstaking care in co-operation with the Orleans Parish Medical Society. They represent several months' work by Miss Davis and many hours granted in interviews by some of the city's leading physicians.
They tell a story of swift advances in U. S. medicine—and New Orleans' position in the vanguard of progress.
