The year 2018 marks the 100th Anniversary of the “Spanish flu” that killed tens of millions of people around the world. Among the documentaries, magazine articles, and books about the epidemic is Laura Spinny’s history
The Waiting Game
It is invisible, like the air we breathe. Yet it often pops up like a genie when a doctor meets with a patient. We lightly say ” the result should be back in just a few days,” but that can set off a chain reaction. For us, “just” is the operative word.
Dr. Lucy Kalanithi Speaks on Writing, Love, and Legacy, at NYU Langone Health
Paul was a promising neurosurgeon, nearing the end of his residency training at Stanford University, when he learned of his illness and faced the question of how to make his remaining time as meaningful as possible.
Dressing Up Tuberculosis: Carolyn A. Day’s Consumptive Chic
Unique to fashion’s allure is its mercuriality. Tastes and styles change and evolve in constant flux; what’s prosaic today might be elevated and imaginatively transformed tomorrow.
A Poet on Parkinson’s Disease
Dopamine and the drugs that act like dopamine have been used to treat Parkinson’s disease symptoms for many decades.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
On February 10th, the Student Interest Group in Neurology and Neurosurgery (SIGNN), in collaboration with Laura Ferguson and students in her Art and Anatomy class, organized an outing to experience …
Oliver
I cannot recall the date you died. My memories are both foggy, perhaps a subconscious protective force against the despair in recalling your last days, and intensely detailed.
My life as an intern
Michael Natter | 2017 Rudin Fellow Michael Natter was born and raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan where he was surrounded by many cultural influences growing up. He …
Why the Humanities Matter
In Greek mythology, Asclepius, god of medicine, is the first physician in human history. He enters the world as his father, Apollo, pulls him from his mother’s womb.