Date | Oration Title | Orator |
2020 | Two Most Important Days: Reflections on Happiness and Living With Purpose | Sanjiv Chopra, M.D., MACP |
2019 | Hope for Haiti - Healing One Patient at a Time | Jane Lochrie, M.D. |
2018 | 12 Lessons Learned About Leadership | Marianne E. Felice, M.D. |
2017 | A Glass (more than) Half Full: The Top Ten Reasons to be Optimistic about the Future of Medicine in Worcester | Terence R. Flotte, M.D. |
2016 | Symphony of the Brain | Joel Popkin, M.D., FACP |
2015 | Medicine and Art | Paul M. Steen, M.D. |
2014 | From the Roadside to the Bedside: Following the Saint of the Gutters | George M. Abraham, M.D., MPH, FACP |
2013 | From Flexner to Worcester: Medicine's Next Century Dawns | Michael F. Collins, M.D. |
2012 | 50 Years of Medicine: Less Art, More Science | Charles Birbara, M.D. |
2011 | That Which Endures: The Quiet Heroes of Medical Discovery | Anthony L. Esposito, M.D., FACP |
2010 | "You Have Saved Our Lives" | Guenter L. Spanknebel, M.D. |
2009 | Monitoring Competence and Enhancing Performance: Effective Ways to Support the Practicing Physician | Richard Aghababian, M.D. |
2008 | Profiles in Medical Courage: A Message of Hope, Survival, and Transcendence | Michael P. Hirsh, M.D. |
2007 | The Class of 1980: Medical Education Then and Now | Michelle P. Pugnaire, M.D. |
2006 | Do No Harm: From Hippocrates to the I.O.M. | Harvey Kowaloff, M.D., MMM |
2005 | Old Dog, New Tricks | B. Dale Magee, M.D., M.S. |
2004 | The Most Important Patient of Our Time | William G. Lavelle, M.D. |
2003 | We Have Met The Aged And They Are Us | Jerry H. Gurwitz, M.D. |
2002 | Adoption and Foster Care: Is It For You? | Harvey G. Clermont, M.D. |
2001 | May I Have The Next Slide, Please?: Deconstructing CME | Lynda M. Young, M.D. |
2000 | Healthcare Delivery - Deliverers | Arthur M. Pappas, M.D. |
1999 | Some Hopes and Predictions for Medicine in the 21st Century | Peter H. Levine, M.D. |
1998 | Stories of Shame and Humiliation in Physicians | Aaron Lazare, M.D. |
1997 | Socrates, Einstein and the Worcester District Medical Society | H. Brownell Wheeler, M.D. |
1996 | Radiology: 100 Years Old and Where To Next? | Murray L. Janower, M.D. |
1995 | Problems Faced by Physicians in The Worcester District: Then and Now | Ralph C. Monroe, M.D. |
1994 | No title available | Paula Stillman, M.D. |
1993 | The Children of Chernobyl | Edward L. Amaral, M.D. |
1992 | Some Comments on Resident Education | Gilbert E. Levinson, M.D. |
1991 | Coming of Age in Urban America | James Barry Hanshaw, M.D. |
1990 | Medicine - Religion or Job? - Prolegomena | The Rev. Robert Bain, M.D. |
1989 | When the Bottom Line Supercedes the "A" Line | Stuart R. Jaffee, M.D. |
1988 | Let's Play Two | Richard H. Glew, M.D. |
1987 | Has the Time Come to Regulate the Regulators? | Saul K. Lerner, M.D. |
1986 | Open for Business | N. Lynn Eckhert, M.D. |
1985 | Medicine's Burdens - Intrinsic and Extrinsic: Can Physicians' Practice Patterns Be Changed? | George R. Dunlop, M.D. |
1984 | It Was the Best of Times... | Jacob Spungin, M.D. |
1983 | The Tools of the Trade | Samuel Bachrach, M.D. |
1982 | Doctor in the Lonely Crowd: The Plight of the Physician in the 80's | Lewis P. James Jr., M.D. |
1981 | Conversations With My Father | Dufault Francis X., M.D. |
1980 | CME: Boon or Bane | Joseph S. Sherer, M.D. |
1979 | Daktari: The Emerging Endangered Species | Elwood O. Horne, M.D. |
1978 | Under the Sign of the Crab | Charles S. Whalen, M.D. |
1977 | The Doctors Dilemma: Villain or Victim? | Edward Mason, M.D. |
1976 | Hip, Hip, Hooray | Verner S. Johnson, M.D. |
1975 | Family Practice | Richard Walton, M.D. |
1974 | Islands of Excellence and the Street Physician | Leonard J. Morse, M.D. |
1973 | The Quality of Medical Care | John J. Massarelli, M.S. (Med.) |
1972 | The Image of a Physician | Stanley L. Kocot, M.D. |
1971 | Worcester as a Medical Center - Now and in the Future | Donald Hight, M.D. |
1970 | The Psychiatric Revolution (1792-1970) | Burte Guterman, M.D. |
1969 | Cry of Rachel | John A. Duggan, M.D. |
1968 | Some Newer Concepts Concerning an Old Disease | Roger W. Robinson, M.D. |
1967 | Education for Living Today | John A. Henderson, M.D. |
1966 | Medical Education: A Challenge to the Community Hospital | Edmund J. Croce, M.D. |
1964 | The AMA, Villain or Victim? | John G. Freymann, M.D. |
1963 | Changing Faces of Medicine | Charles V. King, M.D. |
1962 | Maimonides | Edward Budnitz, M.D. |
1961 | Alcohol, A Christian Diversion | Carrol W. Johnson, M.D. |
1960 | By the Stars We Chart Our Course | Harold M. Constantian, M.D. |
1959 | Quo Vadis | Bardwell H. Flower, M.D. |
1958 | The Quality of Care | Robert Johnson, M.D. |
1957 | Medice, Quo Vadia? | John B. Butts, M.D. |
1956 | Changing Concepts in Physician-Hospital Relationships | John A. Maroney, M.D. |
1955 | What Now Dr. Frankenstein? | Foster L. Vibber, M.D. |
1954 | Changing Concepts in Industrial Medicine | Karl T. Benedict, M.D. |
1953 | Changing Aspects in Medicine | James T. Brosnan, M.D. |
1952 | Some Impressions of a Small Town Doctor | Anna M. Klebart, M.D. |
1951 | Arrow Wounds | Joseph A. Lundy, M.D. |
1950 | The Problem of Ischemia of the Lower Extremities | George R. Dunlop, M.D. |
1949 | 1949 | Paul Dufault, M.D. |
1948 | The Curious Death of Dr. Lodge | John M. Fallon, M.D. |
1947 | Prefrontal Lobotomy | John T. B. Carmody, M.D. |
1946 | Roentgenology and the Changing Medical Trends | William J. Elliott, M.D. |
1945 | Doctors, Patients and Politics | John J. Dunphy, M.D. |
1944 | Frank Burr Mallory: The Physician's Physician | William Freeman, M.D. |
1943 | Barron Larrey | Benjamin H. Alton, M.D. |
1942 | Early Roentgenology | Andrew E. O' Connell, M.D. |
1941 | Experiences with Deafness | Gordon Berry, M.D. |
1940 | Painful Shoulders | Ralph S. Perkins, M.D. |
1938 | Changing Vistas | J. C. Austin, M.D. |
1937 | Social Security and the Physician | C. A. Sparrow, M.D. |
1936 | The Relationship of Psychiatry to Medicine | William A. Bryant, M.D. |
1935 | Evolution of Revolution | R. J. Ward, M.D. |
1934 | Our Early Heritage | W. F. Lynch, M.D. |
1933 | Some Lower Lobe Lesions of the Lung | E. B. Emerson, M.D. |
1932 | Congenital Pyloric Stenosis | W. Seelye, M.D. |
1931 | Problems of Contagious Disease in Worcester | E. Leib, M.D. |
1930 | Efficacy Problems in Applied Surgery | E. L. Hunt, M.D. |
1929 | Taking Account of Stock | W. E. Denning, M.D. |
1928 | A Survey of the Hospitals of the Worcester District | C. L. Miller, M.D. |
1927 | Fifty Years Retrospect | A. M. Shattuck, M.D. |
1926 | No title available | F. H. Washburn, M.D. |
1925 | Some Aspects of Mental Disease and the New Methods of Investigation | H. J. O' Meara, M.D. |
1924 | The Development of Surgery | R. P. Watkins, M.D. |
1923 | Can You Beat It | A. G. Hurd, M.D. |
1922 | Changes Recurring in the Past 25 Years, Having an Effect on the Practice of Medicine | Arthur W. Marsh, M.D. |
1921 | Some Problems of Tuberculosis | George Emery, M.D. |
1920 | Public Health and the General Practitioner | Leslie R. Bragg, M.D. |
1919 | No title available | Emerson, M.D. |
1918 | No title available | Walkins, M.D. |
1917 | A Physician's Impression of Florida | William L. Johnson, M.D. |
1916 | A Survey | J. T. McGillicudy, M.D. |
1915 | The Practice of Preventive Medicine | John M. French, M.D. |
1914 | The Relation of Venereal Diseases to the Public Health | Frederick H. Baker, M.D. |
1913 | The Obligation of the Physician of Today | Frank H. Clapp, M.D. |
1912 | Medicine and Humanity, the Physician as a Promoter of Civilization | J. C. Berry, M.D. |
1911 | Versatility in the Medical Profession | John T. Duggan, M.D. |
1910 | The Ideal Family Physician | Charles A. Church, M.D. |
1909 | A Report of Five Cases of Affections of the Pancreas | Michael F. Fallon, M.D. |
1908 | Vivisection | Ray W. Greene, M.D. |
1907 | Some Things Worth While to the Medical Society Today | Jacob R. Lincoln, M.D. |
1906 | The Early Days of the Worcester Hospitals | Lemuel F. Woodward, M.D. |
1905 | Some Medical Researches | Edward H. Trowbridge, M.D. |
1904 | Forty Years' Progress and the Problems it has Brought to a District Society | Homer Gage, M.D. |
1903 | Some of the Recent Advancements in Medical Science | R. W. Swan, M.D. |
1902 | Some Fundamental Points in Neurological Diagnosis | E. W. Taylor, M.D. |
1901 | The Physician's Adaptation to Modern Conditions | E. W. Norwood, M.D. |
1900 | Specialism in the Practice of Medicine | Albert C. Getchell, M.D. |
1899 | How to Prepare for Death | E. R. Wheeler, M.D. |
1898 | Serum Therapy | O. H. Everett, M.D. |
1897 | Prevention of Disease | L. L. French, M.D. |
1896 | Look Forward and Not Back. Look Upward and Not Down. Look Outward and Not In. | S. B. Woodward, M.D. |
1895 | The Duties, Trials and Rewards of the Physician | Comey, M.D. |
1894 | Problems in State Medicine | E. V. Scribner, M.D. |
1893 | Our Professional Relations | F. E. Corey, M.D. |
1892 | A Sketch of the Medical History of the Worcester District Medical Society | M.J. Halloran, M.D. |
1891 | A Quarter Section | Frederick A. Wilmarth, M.D. |
1890 | Some of the Personal Elements Which Determine A Man's Success in the Practice of Medicine | G. Francis, M.D. |
1889 | Painless Parturition | A. Blodgett, M.D. |
1888 | Treatments in Medical Practice | George M. Morse, M.D. |
1887 | Sanitary Science | Charles A. Peabody, M.D. |
1886 | A Retrospect | F. Brigham, M.D. |
1885 | Management of Labor | W. Davis, M.D. |
1884 | The Care and Cure of the Insane | H. Quimby, M.D. |
1883 | No title available | W. Taylor, M.D. |
1882 | Medical Expert Testimony | J. Rice, M.D. |
1881 | State and Preventative Medicine | F. Kelley, M.D. |
1880 | The Protoplasmic Theory of Life in its Relation to General Medicine | W. Workman, M.D. |
1879 | Fashion in Medicine | J. Marble, M.D. |
1878 | Waldo and Miller | Leonard Wheeler, M.D. |
1877 | Preventative Medicine | E. Harvey, M.D. |
1876 | Humbug in Medicine | A. Orcutt, M.D. |
1875 | The Value of Special Study in Medicine | S. Dixon, |
1874 | Rational Empiricism | G. Webber, M.D. |
1873 | Some of the Elements of Success in a Physician's Practice | G. Francis, M.D. |
1872 | Country Doctor | F. Brown, M.D. |
1871 | Advance of Medicine | E. Warner, M.D. |
1870 | The Human Tongue | J. Robinson, M.D. |
1869 | Medical Physiogonomy | B. Trippe, M.D. |
1868 | Influence of Time and Nature in the Cure of Disease | J. Park, M.D. |
1867 | Consanguineous Marriages | A. Wood, M.D. |
1866 | Asiatic Cholera | Francis Leland, M.D. |
1865 | Diphtheria | Chauncey A. Wilcox, M.D. |
1864 | Evidence of Progress in Medical Science, More Especially During the Present Century | H. Jewett, M.D. |
1863 | The Medical Profession, Its Aims, Trials, Responsibilities and Rewards | J. West, M.D. |
1862 | The Past, Present, and Future of the Worcester District Medical Society | Thomas Hovey Gage, M.D. |
1860 | No title available | Southwick, M.D. |
1859 | No title available | Wheeler, M.D. |
1858 | The External Use of Oil in the Treatment of Disease | Clarke, M.D. |
1857 | No title available | L. Woodward, M.D. |
1856 | No title available | Hitchcock, M.D. |
1855 | No title available | Johnson, M.D. |
1854 | Duties of Medical Profession | Martin, M.D. |
1852 | Advancement of Medical Science | Sargent, M.D. |
1851 | No title available | Marshall, M.D. |
1849 | No title available | J. Tenney, M.D. |
1848 | Medical Agents and Use of Iodine | Davis, M.D. |
1847 | Puerperal Fever | Field, M.D. |
1846 | Importance of Diagnosis | Fay, M.D. |
1845 | Duties and Relations of Physicians to Society and Each Other | W. Workman, M.D. |
1844 | Typhus and Typhoid Fever | Metcalf, M.D. |
1843 | Sympathy of the Stomach or Digestive Organs with Other Organs or Parts of the Body | Thomas R. Boutelle, M.D. |
1842 | No title available | J. Robbins, M.D. |
1841 | No title available | Chandler Smith, M.D. |
1840 | Pathology and Treatment of Different Forms of Inflammation | L. Woodwan, M.D. |
1839 | Scarlitina | Partridge, M.D. |
1837 | Anomalous Case of Cutaneous Eruption | Smith, M.D. |
1836 | Case of Inflammation of the Knee-joint Together with the Treatment Pursued | Wilder, M.D. |
1833 | No title available | Metcalf, M.D. |
1832 | No title available | W. Workman, M.D. |
1831 | No title available | Peck, M.D. |
1830 | No title available | Wilder, M.D. |
1829 | No title available | S. Batcheller, M.D. |
1827 | No title available | Starbreck, M.D. |
1826 | No title available | L. Flint, M.D. |
1825 | No title available | B. Heywood, M.D. |
1824 | No title available | S. Batcheller, M.D. |
1823 | No title available | Wilder, M.D. |
1822 | No title available | J. Homans, M.D. |
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1819 | No title available | S. Manning, M.D. |
1818 | No title available | A. Haskell, M.D. |
1817 | Gout | A. Haskell, M.D. |
1816 | No title available | , |
1815 | History of Chemistry | A. Lowe, M.D. |
1814 | No title available | J. Field, M.D. |
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1812 | No title available | J. Green, M.D. |
1811 | No title available | A. Flint, M.D. |
1808 | No title available | A. Haskell, M.D. |
1807 | No title available | Babbitt, M.D. |
1806 | No title available | O. Fiske, M.D. |
1805 | No title available | J. Osgood, M.D. |
1804 | No title available | J. Osgood, M.D. |
1803 | No title available | J. Osgood, M.D. |
1802 | No title available | Babbitt, M.D. |
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1799 | No title available | , |
1798 | No title available | Whitton, M.D. |
1797 | No title available | , |
1796 | A History of the Malignant Dysentery as it Appeared in Worcester in the Months of July, August and September | O. Fiske, M.D. |
1795 | No title available | Babbitt, M.D. |