Surgical Suite

Halsted: A Surgeons Double Life

The end of the Civil War marked the beginning of reorganization and transformation in American medicine. Doctors began to apply surgical techniques learned during the war; they felt more comfortable using anesthesia. Learning about sanitation, nursing, emergency transport, and hospital construction improved medical care. Basic science became part of medical school training; medical education became…

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Preconceived Notions

There are many theories about who wrote the plays attributed to William Shakespeare.One theory suggests that Francis Bacon may have penned some of these works, whileanother posits that a woman could have been the true author. Recently, several fictionalaccounts have been created around these ideas. However, the straightforward historicalevidence indicates that Shakespeare himself wrote the…