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MEDIFILM REPORT II : 16 mm., black and white, sound, showing time 33 minutes.
Produced in 1960 by Fordel Films Inc.,
New York for the Schering Corporation and the American Medical Association.
Procurable on loan (no service charge)
from American Medical Association,
Mo-tion Picture Library, 535 North Dearborn St., Chicago 10.
Produced for physicians who were unable to
attend the 109th Annual Meeting in Miami
Beach, this film features scientific exhibits, lec-tures, and panel discussions. Host-narrator is
Dr. Ralph Jones, Jr., of the Dade County
(Florida) Medical Society and Professor of
Medicine at the University of Miami.
Exhibits covered include those of Dr. E.
Sterling Nichol of the Miami Heart Institute, who discusses long-term use of anticoagulants for the prevention and treatment of recurrent myocardial infarction; Dr. Donald Berkowitz of Philadelphia, who explains the difficult prob-lems of diagnosis and management of the pa-tient with chronic functional diarrhea; the 1111-nois State Medical Society, which presents a history of medicine in an unusual collection of postage stamps; Dr. Robert A. Kuhn of
Morris-town, N.J., who describes the diagnostic tech-nique of retrograde brachial angiography in patients with stroke; and Dr. Gordon McHardy
of New Orleans, who presents “current
con-cepts of duodenal ulcer.”
Panel discussions are presented through
in-terviews with Dr. Robert E. Olson, who
re-ports on the nutrition symposium; and Dr.
J.
Walter Wilson of Los Angeles, who moderated a panel which discussed the use of griseofulvin in the treatment of certain fungous infections of the scalp, nails, groin, and feet.
Viewers will also meet Dr. Philip Thorek of Chicago as he lectures on the importance of differentiating between duodenal and gastric ulcers, since “every gastric ulcer is a potential carcinoma until proven otherwise.”
Winners of two Gold Medal Awards,
pre-sented by the AMA Council on Scientific
Assembly, give brief descriptions of their exhibits.
In closing, Medifllm Report II introduces Dr.
0 Reprinted from the Journal of the American Medical Association, with permission.
E. Vincent Askey of Los Angeles, newly elected president of the AMA, who remarks in part:
“For those of you who were here in person
with me, I’m sure you’ll agree that we have added greatly to our knowledge and ideas.”
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OURNEY IN Hir.ua’ri : 16 mm., color, sound,showing time 21 minutes. Produced in
1960 for the Smart Family Foundation in
cooperation with the American Medical
Association and the American Academy
of Pediatrics. Procurable on loan (no
serv-ice charge) from American Medical
As-sociation, Motion Picture Library, 535
N. Dearborn St., Chicago 10.
This film stresses the importance of preven-tive medicine among children through regular and continual health supervision by a physi-cian. In a series of flashbacks, Dr. Fowler, a pediatrician, recalls some of the cases in his career when continuous health supervision pre-vented a child from suffering throughout life from a congenital difficulty. Viewers are also impressed with the need for early and regular visits to the physician by seeing children who came to Dr. Fowler too late for him to detect and correct various problems.
The film shows that a health examination must be extremely thorough and include a corn-plete study of the child’s growth and develop-ment-both physical and emotional. Also out-lined is the frequency with which children of different ages should visit a physician. This film does an excellent job of presenting the concept of continuous health supervision by a physician. The advisability of booster shots for maintaining immunity is well illustrated by the example of using a booster shot in conjunction with an injury as a preventive of tetanus. Un-fortunately, an equally important procedure, tuberculin testing, was overlooked in the de-velopment of this film but could well be in-eluded in the continuous health supervision practices.
The manner in which the physician in the
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PHYSICAL DIAGNOSIS-INTRODUCTION TO
SPEECH PROBLEMS: 16 mm., color, sound,
showing time 26 minutes. Prepared by
Frederick L. Darley, Ph.D., Iowa City and
Charles Van Riper, Ph.D., Kalamazoo,
Mich. Project Director-Frederick
J.
Mar-golis, M.D., Kalamazoo, Mich.
Consul-tants-Gordon B. Myers, M.D., and Muir
Clapper, M.D., Detroit. Produced in
1959 by Rex Fleming, Santa Barbara, Cali-fornia. Procurable on loan (service charge $5.00) from Audio Visual Utilization
Cen-ter, Wayne State University, Detroit 2,
Mich.
This film presents a brief review of the mci-dence, etiology, and nature of various speech difficulties in children, with implications re-garding the advisability of therapy for each of these types of defects. Speech problems origi-nating in childhood are not included, although in presenting interviews with persons demon-strating a variety of classifications, several adults are included to indicate the effect of early treatment or lack of treatment on adult speech patterns. The film introduces 2 con-siderations which are of particular interest to those active in the medical, educational, or social management of children. The first con-cerns the decision as to whether apparently
normal speech is to be considered a speech
problem requiring treatment. On the other
hand, stuttering occurring between the ages
of 3 and 5 years is considered normal
non-fluency and should not be distinguished as a problem. Of interest to this same audience, see-ondly, is the presentation of clinical entities,
symptomatology, and medical treatment
pro-cedures in the presence of which one might an-ticipate the existence of a speech problem. When speech onset is delayed, the chance of
subsequent speech difficulty of some type is
greater than when onset occurs at the normal time. Physical and medical management often influence a potential or existing speech problem,
and this influence should be considered in
treating the child.
This material, presented concisely, is a gen-era! survey rather than a sophisticated discus-sion. Its greatest value is that of stimulating further interest in the details of these areas, on the part of persons not formally trained in communication disorders, to facilitate early
de-tection of speech problems and prevent poten-tial difficulty. The film will serve as a guide to the nature and constituents of a speech problem, factors to be considered in determining the ex-tent to which deviant speech is a problem which merits treatment, and the circumstances
which can be expected to contribute to, or
minimize a speech problem. The only criticism is that it covers too much material too rapidly. The photography, sound, and illustrated
ma-terial are excellent. It is recommended to
pediatricians, general practitioners, house offi-cers, medical students and beginning students of speech pathology, teachers, and counselors.
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Di-AGNOSIS OF A HEMATOLOGIC PROBLEM:
16 mm., color, sound, showing time 18
minutes. Technical Advisor: John B.
Miale, M.D., Miami, Fla. Consultants:
William D. Dolan, M.D., Arlington, Va.,
and Robert Kolvoord, Houston, Tex.
Pro-duced in 1960 by Sturgis Grant
Produc-tions, New York, and supported by a
grant from the General Diagnostics Divi-sion of Warner-Chilcott Laboratories.
Procurable on loan from Intersociety
Committee on Pathology Information,
1785 Massachusetts Ave., N.W.,
Wash-ington 6, D.C., or General Diagnostics Division, Warner-Chilcott Laboratories, Morris Plains, New Jersey.
This film was sponsored by the Intersociety
Committee on Pathology Information, which
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attending to many technical details and helping him to save some of his time. The problem presented in the litfie patient is well developed: one possibility after another has been
elimi-nated until the dramatic moment when the
differential diagnosis between hemophilia and so-called Christmas disease has to be settled.
The particular test capable of solving the
riddle is employed, and the answer is furnished.
(
The name “Christmas disease” comes fromthe name of the patient in whom the disease was first studied.)
The photographic quality of this film
throughout is very good, effective use of visual material enhancing the impact of the message in the film. Narration is clear and evenly paced. The film will be of interest to general practitioners, internists, pediatricians, surgeons, and pathologists. It is also recommended for medical technologists and medical students.
PHYSICAL DIAGNOSIS-COMMUNICABLE
Dis-EASES: 16 mm., color, sound, showing
time 30 minutes. Prepared by Louis
Weinstein, M.D., Boston. Project Director
-Frederick
J. Margolis,
M.D.,Kalama-zoo, Mich. Consultants-Gordon B.
My-ers, M.D., and Muir Clapper, M.D.,
De-troit. Produced in 1960 by Rex Fleming,
Santa Barbara, Calif. Procurable on loan
(
service charge $5.00) from Audio Visual Utilization Center, Wayne State Univer-sity, Detroit 2.This is a teaching film for house officers, based upon the premise, which is correct, that this group does not have sufficient clinical ex-perience in communicable and infectious dis-eases. The following diseases are covered: roseola infantum; German or 3-day measles; measles; chicken pox; vaccinia, primary reac-tion and rash; herpes simplex of mucous mem-branes; herpes zoster; mycotic pharyngitis as manifested by thrush; mumps; scarlet fever; staphylococcus dermatitis; pertussis; poliomye-litis; encephalitis; bacterial meningitis; lymph node tuberculous adenitis; and mycotic involve-ment of the skin. In spite of the excellence of this film, there
are a
few important criticisms.As a teaching film too many diseases are dealt with in too short a time. Although the
narra-tion is excellent, the speed of dialogue and progression of diseases is too rapid for less than
the experienced physician to follow. It would have been better, as a teaching film, to divide the material and showing into 2 separate films such as: (1) the exanthemata; and (2) other in-fectious diseases. In its present form it will re-quire at least 2 showings, with added discus-sion for medical students and house officers. Illustrations of the rash and its characteristics and other physical findings are well portrayed.
Each disease is very well covered and well
illustrated by actual patient demonstration. The author should be complimented upon the visual portrayal of all of the diseases shown. The photography is excellent. This film is
appropri-ate for pediatricians, general practitioners,
house officers, and medical students.
CoccmlolDoMYcOsls: 16 mm., color, sound,
showing time 30 minutes. Prepared in
1960 by Marco Bruschi, M.D.,
Bakers-field, Calif. Procurable on loan (service
charge $4) from American Medical
Asso-ciation, Motion Picture Library, 535 N.
Dearborn St., Chicago 10.
This film covers the entire disease entity and
places emphasis on the dermatological, roent-genographic, pathological, and laboratory as-pects of this illness. Geographical distribution patterns of the disease and the epidemiological, medical, and surgical aspects are discussed; numerous patients are presented throughout the film to illustrate these essential points. The sub-ject matter is presented extremely well from every angle except that of surgry. However, this is not to be considered a detriment to the film since its primary purpose is not, appar-ently, that of instruction as to the treatment of this disease. This is a magnificent film
throughout, and, as a technical entity, it is
superb. The over-all photographic quality of this film is good, although some variations in quality occur because of the incorporation of photographs of patients evidently taken some years prior to the production of this film.
However, this variation is far less than that usually encountered in situations of this type and does not materially detract from the mes-sage in the film. The narration is clear and distinct and thereby enables the viewer to
