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Yes…..I thought I might brag a little…about how amazing the Class of ’87 was at Hopkins, as the first classmate of mine from Hopkins to become a Dean of Medical School just was announced. Dr. James Hildreth, an MD-PhD from my Hopkins class is now taking up the Medical School Deanship of Meharry Medical College, …
For some reason I was just thinking back to the wards at Hopkins and the yellow bags of IV fluids that we would hang for the patients who abused alcohol. The IV’s we’d give them were called OSLER BAGS…named after the famous first chief of medicine at Johns Hopkins, Sir William Osler, and the namesake …
Pap testing is a superb method for screening for cancer of the cervix (the opening of the uterus), but there is potential promise for the pap smear as a screening test for ovarian and uterine cancer, and in a recent scientific article from Johns Hopkins, research have performed initial innovative research showing ‘proof of concept’ …
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