Reconsecratio medici

In June 1926, Harvey Cushing delivered a graduation address to the Jefferson Medical College entitled, “Consecration Medici”– the Consecration of the Physician. In this address, Crushing defines “common devotion” as the one thing that can effectively blind people and “it is of the doctor’s consecration to this task…the kind of unselfish relation to suffering humanity that made Saint Luke the beloved physician no more nor less than it makes many another doctor of name unheard and unsung today.”