#Harvard Medical School

[epiph-annie]

"You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you if you work hard enough."

[afrotumble]

Myron Rolle was a standout safety for the Florida State Seminoles. An All-American in 2008, Rolle helped the Seminoles win on the field, and off the field, he won a Rhodes Scholarship. After his college career, he took a year off from football to study at Oxford University as it was his goal to play in the NFL and also to become a neurosurgeon. After 2 seasons in the NFL, Rolle attended Harvard Medical School and is now a Global Neurosurgery Fellow at Harvard Medical School.

[reallymadefromstardust]

Gonna donate my body to Havard Medical School so I can tell ppl Im going to Havard

[haggishlyhagging]

The Boylston Prize is cited as one of Jacobi's major achievements, for it was public recognition of her competence, and illustrated her ability to carry out a complex study, apply laboratory techniques, articulate her findings, and convince an audience of men to reconsider concepts of female physiology. Despite the impact and notoriety of her study, Harvard Medical School remained closed to women. A few years later, Jacobi took more direct action, writing to Morrill Wyman and zoologist Alexander Agassiz and calling for coeducation in support of Marion Hovey's offer. Then, in 1882, she joined Emily Blackwell and Marie Zakrzewska in raising another endowment, this time of $50,000, and offering it to Harvard on the condition that it accept women by 1891. Although financial difficulties forced college officials to consider the proposal, outraged faculty stepped in, and with threats of resignation, halted the women's efforts. Women did not enter Harvard Medical School until 1945.

-Carla Bittel, Mary Putnam Jacobi & The Politics of Medicine in Nineteenth-Century America.

[mudwerks]

(via Harvard Medical School morgue manager sold body parts, prosecutors allege)

so oldschool

like modern medicine’s early days 

[cyclicallife]

Over the past few months, various events or things have triggered me.

Some are minuscule, such as a sound or smell that will set off several memories. Others are more significant, a bodily sensation, an ache, cough, or the like that provokes a more powerful emotional/psychological response.

I note these reactions, a tactic I use to help ground myself. From there, I can move forward, understanding more about it (the trigger) and my relationship with it. If I can, witnessing myself is the trick; detecting what is occurring before being consumed.

The milestone of the five-year cancer-free mark is not an exemption from fear and worry. Sometimes they peak at the same level they did while amid treatment -- periodically even more so.

Nights are difficult. Anyone who has experienced a tumultuous and life-altering event can attest that this is when the little dark fears come out of the woodwork.

A few weeks ago, I returned from Samsø, Denmark (see the previous update here or blog post on cyclical.life). A small island with under 4,000 inhabitants, nestled snuggly off the Jutland peninsula. Though it has several adorable little towns, the 40-something square mile island is used primarily for agricultural purposes. To say that it is a walkers' paradise is an understatement.

When I am state-side, I often sit with these "little dark fears" only to a certain point. It wasn't a bold pursuit or some other brave endeavor that granted me the time and pace to do so on Samsø; it happened as if on its own.

One night, awoken by worries and fears, I got dressed, grabbed my raincoat, and went for a walk. It was almost a knee-jerk reaction. As I joked to a few people, the beautiful thing about an island is that you can't get lost; you ramble through fields and upon well-worn tractor paths, and sooner or later, you'll encounter the ocean.

Every evening I filled my rucksack with: a rainjacket, another base layer, extra socks, a flashlight, a field recorder, and bread, butter, and honey, just in case. Then, I'd begin walking if I woke in the night, regardless of the time and conditions, to discover that the fears were present.  

State-side, if my worries and fears become too great, and my audiobook or music doesn't cut through the mix, I'll bust out trusty ol' Netflix. I didn't have such distractions there. Though I purchased a Danish SIM card for emergencies, I didn't carry my phone or bring my pre-downloaded audiobook.

Bringing the field recorder was the best decision. I didn't intend to record myself, but I'd sit on some slight rise or the beach and try to collect my thoughts and gather my ideas while talking aloud - a practice I began while in school as it helped me work out ideas. My words were wandering much in the way I was rambling physically.

I have a project in mind for the recordings. Though what follows are some excerpts and snippets I pulled that I found revealing.

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I move forward in this place (of recovery)

A beacon pulling / a signal drawing

Being held - here

I have learned to live with the memory of you [cancer], as one does with something that echoed, a thing that came.

The lights of Aarhus could be another world - a gentle glow (western paling sky). Aarhus could be Boston from here - Mass General could be anywhere. I could be anywhere. I am here.

Birds; two, then three, then 4, and 5 (a dance that says 'we are together in this; we heal together.')

[neeyah24]

Learn how to make a medical board correctly

[simonh]

Dystrophin Abnormalities in Neuormuscular Disease by National Library of Medicine Via Flickr: Series Title(s): NIH director's Wednesday afternoon lecture series Contributor(s): Kunkel, Louis M. National Institutes of Health (U.S.) Publication: [Bethesda, Md. : National Institutes of Health, 1990] Language(s): English Format: Still image Subject(s): Neuromuscular Diseases, Dystrophin Genre(s): Posters Abstract: Predominantly gray poster with red and white lettering announcing a lecture given Nov. 1990 by Louis M. Kunkel, Ph.D., prof. of genetics at Harvard Medical School. Visual image is an abstraction of the myosin and actin filaments of a sarcomere, depicted with yellow and gray rods. The first iteration shows the rods in a close formation, as in a normal, contracted muscle; they become separated by greater distances in the iterations below. All text near bottom of poster. Extent: 1 photomechanical print (poster) : 72 x 43 cm. Technique: color NLM Unique ID: 101449377 NLM Image ID: A030719 Permanent Link: resource.nlm.nih.gov/101449377

[artisticdivasworld]

The Impact of Private Equity on Hospital Care Quality

A Troubling Trend: Declining Hospital Care Quality Post-Private Equity Acquisition In recent years, the healthcare sector has seen a significant influx of private equity investments. A nationwide analysis, including a study from Harvard Medical School, has brought to light some concerning trends associated with these investments, particularly in the context of hospital care quality. The Core…

[iamanathemadevice]

Harvard's In Trouble for Selling Body Parts

A report by Caitlin Doughty

[frommyfavoritebooks]

Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School, even short-term sleep deprivation “can affect judgment, mood, ability to learn and retain information, and may increase the risk of serious accidents and injury.” When you’re tired, it’s harder for your brain to filter out distractions. You have poorer self-control. You’re less able to tolerate frustration. And your brain has difficulty deciding what’s important to pay attention to and what’s not.

- How to Break Up with Your Phone, Catherine Price

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Genetic-screening laws struck Jonathan Beckwith, a professor of microbiology and molecular genetics at Harvard Medical School, as potentially "the opening wedge for a eugenics program." In 1974, in an article in Psychology Today, Beckwith and two younger co-authors warned that "in the age of the technological fix, this country is heading for genetic and behavioral control of society." They continued, "Who will exercise the control? Who will make the decisions about which genes are defective, and which behavior abnormal? Who will make the decisions about the genetic worth of prospective human beings?"²⁶

26. Lappé, Genetic Politics, pp. 70, 90-93; Samuel P. Bessman and Judith P. Swazey, "Phenylketonuria: A Study of Biochemical Legislation", in E. Mendelsohn, J. P. Swazey, and I. Taviss, eds., Human Aspects of Biomedical Innovation (Harvard University Press, 1971), pp. 50-51; President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research, Screening and Counseling for Genetic Conditions: The Ethical, Social, and Legal Implications of Genetic Screening, Counseling, and Education Programs (Government Printing Office, 1983), pp. 13-14; Committee for the Study of Inborn Errors of Metabolism . . . National Research Council, Genetic Screening: Programs, Principles, and Research, pp. 24-25, 28, 29, 51, 92-93. Ausubel, Beckwith, and Janssen, "The Politics of Genetic Engineering: Who Decides Who's Defective?" p. 45. Tracy Sonneborn, a colleague of H. J. Muller, though sympathetic to germinal choice, privately challenged its control by any centralized group of sages. "Even if the sages were all truly Sages, there is a Hitlerian overtone that is repugnant." Sonneborn to Muller, Sept. 28, 1965, Hermann J. Muller Papers, Germinal Choice file, box IV.

"In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity" - Daniel J. Kevles

[immaculatasknight]

Problems in the medical establishment begin in academia

[chiefhuntingbear-is-a-shaman]

The brain uses approximately half the glucose that a person ingests and if (s)he's on a low-calorie diet more.

-Doc HuntingBear

[chiefhuntingbear-directory]

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ChiefHuntingBear is a Shaman who used to practice neurosurgery at Mass General.

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