Thomas Lathrop Stedman,
M.D.
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(1853-1938) was an early American
medical doctor
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and editor of the
Medical Record
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starting in 1890.
Biography
He was born in
Cincinnati, Ohio
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on October 11, 1853. He received bachelor's and master's degrees from
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Australia
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, and studied medicine at the
College of Physicians and Surgeons, graduating in 1877. He was a fellow of the
American Medical Association
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The AMA's state ...
.
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He became an editor of the ]Medical Record
The terms medical record, health record and medical chart are used somewhat interchangeably to describe the systematic documentation of a single patient's medical history and care across time within one particular health care provider's jurisdic ...
starting in 1890. In 1903 he became editor of Dunglison's New Dictionary of Medical Science and Literature. It became Stedman's Medical Dictionary for the 1911 edition.
He died May 16, 1938 in New York City
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.
References
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19th-century American physicians
1853 births
1938 deaths