Musing of a Contemporary Pathologist

Author Brooklyn Transplant

Stephen A. Geller is a nationally and internationally known pathologist with special interest in liver diseases, the autopsy and medical history. He is chairman emeritus of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he spent 28 years, and has taught pathology at the Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, at UCLA and at Weill-Cornell in New York. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he now lives in Manhattan with his wife, Kate. In addition to hundreds of scientific articles, book chapters and two pathology textbooks ("Histopathology" and "Biopsy Interpretation of the Liver" in its second edition) his first novel, "A Little Piece of Me," was published in 2014. He has had 6 short stories published. He is currently completing other novels and short stories.

Medical Trivia #1: Sutton’s Law

There are many “laws” in science reflecting past observations and scientific proofs that have been shown to be either completely true or at least highly reliable. Many of these laws bear someone’s name. Some required understanding of complex scientific principles… Continue Reading →

A Tale of Two Meetings; the microscope meets the pen

In one month, March 2016, I attended two seemingly widely disparate meetings. The 105thth annual meeting of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) was held at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, March 12-18. The 16thth… Continue Reading →

Easter Memories

The New York Times crossword puzzle for Wednesday May 20, 2015 included, as a clue for 23 across: Holiday not widely observed by Quakers. The answer was: Easter. I did not know that about Quakers but I was reminded of… Continue Reading →

Doctors who write; It all began with Ctesius of Cnidus

A question I am often asked about my first novel, A Little Piece of Me, is: why did you write it? This is usually followed by: how long did it take? I also get asked if it is based on something… Continue Reading →

How NOT to learn about grand opera and other tales …

1939 was quite a year in the history of the world. World War II began when Germany attacked Poland. The Spanish Civil War ended as Franco conquered Madrid. Albert Einstein wrote to President Roosevelt urging him to build an atomic… Continue Reading →

Trepanation – (or releasing demons)

  Trepanation, or trephining, may well represent the earliest wound inflicted by one human being on another for the purpose of healing and can be considered the beginning of the practice of surgery and the earliest tangible evidence of medical… Continue Reading →

THE Dodgers, once and forever

  Many times, in the years after my 1984 move to Los Angeles from New York, colleagues would invite me to go with them to Dodger Stadium in Chavez Ravine to see the Los Angeles Dodgers play. I always politely… Continue Reading →

Medicine, molecules and music: Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) – surgeon, scientist, composer, educator, women’s rights advocate, Broadway award winner

A 1951 stamp from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (CCCP in Russian, USSR in English) bears the images of five great Russian composers: Mikhail Glinka (top left), Peter Ilyitch Tchaikowsky (top right), Modest Moussorgsky (bottom left), Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakoff (bottom… Continue Reading →

Anatomy and the bears

  My aunt Goldie used to subscribe to the Reader’s Digest and I would look forward to reading it when we visited her house. I didn’t do more than glance at most of the articles, concentrating on just a few… Continue Reading →

Heartless hospitals – part 1

  The first record of something that we might call a hospital, a specific place to bring sick people, may be in Ceylon in the Fifth Century. The Babylonian Talmud of more than three thousand years ago devotes considerable discussion… Continue Reading →

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