As spokesman for the Massachusetts Medical Society I take this opportunity of extending to all the Society's fellows and all the readers of the Journal a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Massachusetts is the only state that uses a jail for civil commitments. As the Massachusetts Medical Society says, “Being sent to a correctional facility for [substance use disorder] treatment ...

is an English-language peer-reviewed medical journal published by the Massachusetts Medical Society. It describes itself as the oldest continuously published medical journal in the world.

The seal ("little signature") of the Massachusetts Medical Society is a figure of Aesculapius in his proper habit pointing to a wounded hart nipping the herb proper for his cure, with the motto ...