by Ann Beach | Jul 21, 2025 | Medicine
People like to characterize present-day parents as helicopters, always hovering over their children, children who have every moment of their day scheduled and supervised. Those same people think of Boomer Babies as free-range kids, who were kicked out of the house in...
by Ann Beach | Jul 11, 2025 | Medicine
The late 19th and early 20th Century was a time of optimism about many things, but not about premature babies. In an era that celebrated healthy babies, with Better Baby contests, awarding prizes to the biggest, fittest, best-looking babies, there was little to offer...
by Ann Beach | Jun 30, 2025 | Medicine
Horseshoe crabs have been around for 450 million years. They’ve survived several mass extinctions and have outlived the dinosaurs. Arthropods more related to spiders than crabs, these primitive, resilient sea creatures are coastal dwellers, preferring the ocean...
by Ann Beach | Jun 23, 2025 | Medicine
Perhaps your travels are taking you abroad this summer. And you’re still looking for those unusual medical museums. I have more suggestions for you. More years ago than I want to admit, I was a hippie with a backpack, hitchhiking around Europe. Even then, I wanted to...
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 | Jun 11, 2025 | Medicine
When I was a little girl, my favorite book was Doctor Dan the Bandage Man, a Little Golden Book. Do you remember it? Dan helps Mother, his sister, even the family dog, when they get cuts and need Band-Aids. I knew I wanted to be a doctor when I grew up, so this book...
