by Ann Beach | Jun 18, 2025 | Medicine
You’re going on vacation this summer, aren’t you? If you’re like me and enjoy medical history (the more obscure the better), be on the lookout for unexpected boutique medical museums. They are everywhere. Tucked inside big museums, on their own in tourist towns,...
by Ann Beach | Dec 12, 2024 | Medicine
Robert Lewis Stevenson (1850-1894) was one of the best-known authors of his day. He was a paradox; he traveled widely, yet was weak and sickly all of his life. He spent much of his life in bed or in a sickroom, yet he wrote wonderful adventures like Kidnapped and...
by Ann Beach | Nov 21, 2024 | Medicine
First of all, what in the world is a mad stone? Smooth, odd-shaped, unusually colored, of almost any size, mad stones are miraculous objects possessing healing powers. They are actually bezoars, hairball-like concretions found in the stomachs of animals such as deer...
by admin | Aug 3, 2023 | Medicine, Uncategorized
I’d already been in practice for several years when I married John. I had had years of training in night call, during med school, internship, residency, and private practice. He, poor guy, had not. So, it was a new world to him. It was in the days before call centers...
by admin | May 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
Now, here’s a must-read book! Lynn Cullen’s latest book, The Woman with the Cure, is historical fiction about the last great polio epidemic of the 1950s and race to find a vaccine. Dr. Dorothy Horstmann, a pediatrician, epidemiologist, and virologist was the first...
