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Definition of Medical social worker
1. Noun. An official in a British hospital who looks after the social and material needs of the patients.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Medical Social Worker
Literary usage of Medical social worker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association (1921)
"... historically from the mental hygiene movement just as the point of view of
the medical social worker is derived from modern developments in medicine, ..."
2. The Kingdom of Evils: Psychiatric Social Work Presented in One Hundred Case by Elmer Ernest Southard, Mary Cromwell Jarrett (1922)
"Every medical social worker should obviously receive a large amount of social
psychiatric training in his or her school of social work, and a fortiori ..."
3. Public Health Nursing by Mary Sewall Gardner (1916)
"It is not enough that the medical social worker should do her own work well, ...
As the medical social worker is neither wholly a nurse nor wholly a social ..."
4. Social Work in Hospitals: A Contribution to Progressive Medicine by Ida Maud Cannon (1915)
"Not every hospital can make the most effective use of the medical-social worker
even though the latter be an expert. For if the social worker is to help ..."
5. Women Professional Workers: A Study Made for the Women's Educational and by Elizabeth Kemper Adams (1921)
"The psychiatric social worker is a much more recent and more specialized development
than the medical social worker. Neither her title nor her training took ..."
6. The Social Hygiene Bulletin by American Social Hygiene Association (1922)
"It is important, too, that the medical-social worker should make clear to the social
... The fourth function of the medical-social worker is the general ..."
7. Social Work: Essays on the Meeting-ground of Doctor and Social Worker by Richard Clarke Cabot (1919)
"... it is perhaps easier for the medical social worker than for others to avoid
these blunders. At the outset of a relationship which amis to be friendly, ..."
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