The physician's privilege and obligation is to care for patients with
both compassion and skill. In the past, when skills were primitive, physicians
relied perforce on the art of treatment and such compassion as his temperament
and experience endowed. Today, physicians bring finely honed skills to
patient needs - skills developed by decades of progress in research in
the clinical sciences. Doctor Albion Walter Hewlett, eminent professor
of medicine at Stanford from 1916 until his untimely death in 1925, was
a physician of rare compassion and skills, known in this country and abroad
for his contributions to medical science.
The Department of Medicine at Stanford presents this award in his name and memory to recognize like qualities in the award's recipients.
