anatomy – Brooklyn Transplant

Vertigo

If you are of a certain age the word ‘vertigo’ may bring to mind images of a terrified Jimmy Stewart and the luminous Kim Novak. Perhaps the Golden Gate Bridge will also crowd into your memory, as will the name… Continue Reading →

The Dying Cadaver

The Spring 2018 issue of Rutgers Magazine, the magazine for alumni of the State University of New Jersey (Kate, my wife, is a Rutgers graduate), includes a one-page article, A High-Tech Anatomy Lesson, describing how medical students can be taught… Continue Reading →

November 6, 2018 8

Medical Trivia #3: Hadrian’s Earlobe

The Roman Emperor Hadrian (Publius Aelius Hadrianus Augustus) was born in Italica-Hispanica (modern day Seville, Spain) in 76 CE and died at his villa in Baiae, an ancient Roman town on the Gulf of Naples,… Continue Reading →

February 22, 2018 5

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 →

August 16, 2014 4

Musing of a Contemporary Pathologist

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Vertigo

The Dying Cadaver

Medical Trivia #3: Hadrian’s Earlobe

Anatomy and the bears

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