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Welcome to WDMS Online!
Your Local Connection
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Worcester District Medical Society Officers 2019
- 2020: |
| President: |
Sahdev Passey, MD |
| Vice President: |
Spiro Spanakis, DO |
| Secretary: |
Giles Whalen, MD |
| Treasurer: |
Dale Magee, MD |
| Orator: |
Sanjiv Chopra, MD |
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Worcester District Medical Society
SPOKEN HISTORY PROJECT
The Worcester District Medical Society began a Spoken History
Project in 1995 to record the experiences of practicing physicians
through the ages. This project is currently overseen by Dr. Dale
Magee, with the interviews generally being performed by medical
students.
Click
here to view or listen to recordings
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Worcester District Medical Society
Annual Orations Web Page
Visit
WDMS Annual Orations to
view a list of distinguished orators
from 1795 - 2016 with a brief synopsis of
each oration (if available).
A
co-operative effort between the
Worcester District Medical Society
and the Lamar Soutter Library.
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Click Here To View Our 2019-2020
Calendar of Events
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The Union Medical
Association was officially established at Blackstone Village,
Mendon, Massachusetts, on May 12, 1834 by local doctors Hiram Allen,
Abel Wilder, Metcalf Marsh, Ariel Ballou and Moses D. Southwick. The
goal of the Union Medical Association was to maintain and advance
the medical knowledge of its members. This collection includes
reports and transcripts of lectures on interesting medical cases,
new remedies, medical ethics, and statistics created from 1834 to
1858 by the Association’s members. Also included in this collection
are autograph letters of different French, English, and American
physicians dated 1758 - 1836. Currently, the original papers of the
Union Medical Association are the part of the Worcester District
Medical Society collection housed at the Worcester Historical
Museum.
Click here for the digitized version
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The History of the Worcester District Medical Society (WDMS):
In 1954 Dr.
Paul F. Bergin who was, at the time, the Society's secretary
wrote a history of the WDMS. This consisted of two typescript
copies.
To disseminate
and celebrate our long history, in 1994 Dr. John J. Massarelli,
a past president of the Society, edited the typescript from
which we published the History of the Society 1795-1954 as a
bound book.
Subsequently,
Dr. Massarelli took it upon himself to extend our written
history up to our 200th anniversary year by authoring
the follow up history of 1954-1994. Of some interest, the
original title was "A Fraternity of Physicians" but upon
reflection and especially in view of chapter 25 the title was
changed and the book was published in 1995 as "A Community of
Physicians".
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