West M
Cardiff School of History and Archaeology, Humanities Building, Cardiff University.
QJM. 2007 Mar;100(3):151-83. doi: 10.1093/qjmed/hcm012.
The creation of this Association stands out as one of the most important landmarks in the history of British medicine. To appreciate its importance and significance we have to remember the state of affairs previous to its conception. The great hospitals and medical schools scattered throughout the country lived largely isolated existences. Even in the large cities there was a minimum of contact between the staff of one hospital and another. An isolation which is now hard to appreciate. Even in the metropolis, the great teaching hospitals tended to live unto themselves, a kind of glorified independence ... The Association changed all that.
该协会的创立堪称英国医学史上最重要的里程碑之一。要理解其重要性和意义，我们必须回顾其创立之前的状况。遍布全国的大型医院和医学院在很大程度上处于孤立状态。即使在大城市，一家医院的工作人员与另一家医院的工作人员之间的联系也很少。这种孤立如今很难理解。即使在大都市，大型教学医院也往往自成一体，一种 glorified independence（此处可能有误，可推测为“一种荣耀的独立状态”）……而该协会改变了这一切。
