ABSTRACT
The modern physician holds a variety of hospital posts and, when possible, usually associates himself with a medical school. He may be a medical scientist, teacher, or practitioner, but no matter what medical career a modern physician chooses, he will conduct his business within the medical institutions of a community. Most medicine in Boston is in some way affiliated with one of three medical schools: Boston University, Tufts University, and Harvard Medical School. Each has teaching, research, and service agreements with hospitals and other medical settings throughout the city. The Department of Medicine of the Harvard Medical School is an association of physician groups at four Boston hospitals: Massachusetts General Hospital, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Beth Israel Hospital, and Boston City Hospital. In 1915 Boston City Hospital's trustees decided that the administrative heads of the Third and Fourth Medical Services would be appointed on the advice of Tufts and Harvard universities.
