title: Essayists, essays, and hosts: Daniel Hale Williams Medical Reading Club.
abstract: The 66-year-old Daniel Hale Williams Medical Reading Club is an independent reading club comprised of 65 physicians in the metropolitan Washington, DC, area. Members representing all specialty fields meet six times a year for dinner and fellowship, to consider topics of common interest to the profession, and to hear a prepared lecture given by a featured essayist. Club members take turns as hosts for each meeting. This article gives a historical list of these meetings, naming the essayist and the topic, the hosts, and the site of the meetings.
authors.affiliation: Rockville, Maryland and Washington DC.
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authors.lastname: Greene Reed
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authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Evans
mesh_terms: D004219:District of Columbia; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D011932:Reading; D012955:Societies, Medical / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States