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Laufer’s Rules with Comments

Igor Laufer (1944-2010) was a distinguished, renowned and beloved gastrointestinal radiologist at the University of Pennsylvania, largely responsible for the development and refinement of double-contrast barium studies of the GI tract. Igor and I first met in the early 1980’s… Continue Reading →

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 →

June 13, 2016 1

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 →

September 26, 2014 8

Musing of a Contemporary Pathologist

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Laufer’s Rules with Comments

Medical Trivia #1: Sutton’s Law

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

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