As a young doctor newly assigned to “the E.W.,” Dr. Knowles in 1951 saw in the growing traffic through the emergency ward how the functions of, and demands on, the American hospital were changing. Now general director of Massachusetts General Hospital, one of the world’s great medical complexes, he reflects on how far the changes have gone.
A graduate of Harvard College and Washington University School of Medicine , DR. JOHN H. KNOWLES, served as an intern and resident at the Massachusetts General Hospital. After a year as a United States Public Health Service Fellow at the University of Rochester Medical School, he returned to the M.G.H. as chief resident in medicine in 1959, and in 196'2 he became general director.