by Ann Beach | Sep 21, 2023 | Medicine
We love to stay at historic places when we travel, and so I booked a few nights at Birch Lodge during our recent vacation to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. All I knew was that it was over 100 years old, on the National Registry of Historic Places, and looked beautiful...
by admin | Jun 15, 2023 | Medicine
A young boy using a stick to lead a blind man. I just had the opportunity to attend the Carter Center Board of Councilors meeting, to hear updates on some of their longstanding programs. The motto of the Carter Center, Waging Peace. Fighting Disease. Building Hope....
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...
by Ann Beach | Apr 5, 2023 | Medicine, Uncategorized
I love studying the history of medicine, especially the pre-anesthesia, pre-antibiotic era. Fleming, Osler, Rush, Avicenna, Blackwell, Curie, Pasteur are all familiar friends to me now. So, it’s no surprise to me that nuggets of medical history find me when we are on...
