Urological Museum US

2025-04-19
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Urological Museum US

Tags : 1900-1949 Baltimore USA

Category : museumDocs

A whole series of MuseumDocs looked after the Urology Museum:

https://www.urologichistory.museum

I am a Midwesterner, who grew up in Illinois, just outside of Chicago. My family was large; I am the 3rd son of six children and was always trying to compete with my two older brothers. I am the first of my family to attend college, so the family was surprised when my intentions to attend medical school materialized. I went to Illinois Wesleyan University, in Bloomington Illinois before attending Southern Illinois University in Springfield. I was always a bibliophile. I became interested in historical writings in college; the library in Bloomington had extensive archives on Abraham Lincoln. One little known anecdote about my college career bridging to medical school was that I joined a circus briefly before matriculation. Bloomington, Illinois has long been the seat of Circus flyers and the allure of being hurtled by a teeterboard was just too compelling prior to pursuing medicine (or perhaps it is an appropriate metaphor). I became interested in surgery early in medical school and began to do significant research in transplant physiology. My first paper was on aseptic necrosis of the hip in transplant patients on steroids which was presented at the University of Michigan. I graduated with honors in surgical research and went to Connecticut for a general surgical residency. I became sidetracked by interacting with a group of outstanding urologists in Bridgeport during an elective rotation. That changed everything. I switched career pathways and matriculated to Albany Medical Center where I met my wife, Gail. The urologic training also allowed me to pursue other academic interests such as the history of science. Finishing training in 1988, I pursued a fellowship with George Drach in stone disease, while endourology was in its infancy. During the fellowship year in which George gave me intense latitude, I met a young general surgery fellow who introduced me to laparoscopy. I moved on to an academic position at the University of California, Davis in Sacramento, California. Here I could explore laparoscopic surgery intensively in a laboratory setting and began interacting with high end technologies such as robotic systems by 2000. In the lab next to mine worked a young surgeon named Fred Maul who would later founded Intuitive Surgery. Also present was Hap Paul, a veterinarian with a vision to create an orthopedic robot which he called Robodoc. These were heady times when Ralph Clayman had just performed the first human laparoscopic nephrectomy. Our first child was born in Sacramento but I simply could not sustain our lifestyle in California and I had the opportunity to return to Albany, NY with my new family and a progressive private practice that encouraged my academic activities. During my academic years at the university, I had the great pleasure of developing many lifelong personal contacts with individuals who have had a profound effect upon me. One such individual was Sakti Das. He was a mentor, a friend, a political ally who helped me become only the third urologist to gain membership in the American Osler Society. My love for historical and humanistic medicine has found a natural place amongst the Oslerians. In addition, I have had the massive honor of having several publishers produce works of mine of the historical variety which truly have no real home in the urological literature at present. The final chapter of my career has found me back in Tucson, Arizona where my academic career started. I have increasingly become affiliated with the AUA and the William P. Didusch Center for Urologic History over the past five years. I have come to know Rainer and Dorothy Engel and their brood at each subsequent annual meeting. My first love in history is books, and then comes artifacts - a bit different from Rainer's background. The museum is a treasure trove of urological artifacts and the library is in need of careful scrutiny and acquisitions. I feel the great potential for the American Urological Association's museum at the Linthicum headquarters and hope to follow the paths already begun by those on whose shoulders I will stand. With the mantra from Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpshicore, Thalia and Urania (the muses) I will try to continue and expand upon the mandate of my four predecessors. "nanos gigantium humeris insidentes" [12 century quote attributed to Bernard of Chartres (dwarfs on the shoulders of giants), perhaps the source of Newton's much more famous quip to his rival Hooke on February 5, 1676].

Rainer Engel, MD, FACS, passionately and tirelessly served the AUA's William P. Didusch Center for Urologic History for 23 years as curator of the museum and subsequently AUA Historian. Dr. Engel published on a wide range of subjects, including urinary diversion, hypospadias and urologic cancers. In addition to publishing medical research and case studies, he wrote numerous chapters in medical books and many urological history monographs and AUA museum publications. The AUA awarded him The William P. Didusch Art and History Award in 1996 and honorary membership to the AUA in 2006. Both Rainer and Dorothy were honored by the AUA Board with an appreciation award in 2004 for their work in rebuilding the museum at the new AUA Headquarters. Rainer's biography is best told in his own words, taken from a piece he wrote for the museum's website: I was born the third of nine children in 1933 in a small town outside of Cologne, Germany. My early years were heavily influenced by World War II—bombings, troops marching through our city and bodies in the street—which left an indelible impression on me. After grammar school, I went to the Gymnasium in our town where I had the pleasure of learning Latin and Greek, subjects that I did not particularly care for. The one subject, ironically, that I truly loathed was history: a quagmire of dates and names that seemed to be totally unrelated to each other yet had to be memorized and spouted forth on command. My father was a teacher at this school, so he knew about my achievements—both positive and negative—long before classes were over and "discussed" them with me after school. I decided to study medicine—with all of its Latin and Greek—after entertaining dreams of becoming an architect or sculptor. No one thing led me to become a doctor, but family friend-physicians and fond memories of time spent being patched up for play-related scrapes and worse led me to the hospital to make my living. I went to medical school at the Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelm Universität in Bonn, which at that time was the provisional capital of Germany. While taking my final boards (a rather protracted, laborious, and intense torture), I decided with one of my friends that each night before the next exam we would go to the dumbest movie we could find. One night we ended up captivated by a movie called Dream Street of the World, and as we walked out, we thought, one day we will drive that street. After my internship in Germany, I decided to turn that dream into a reality. My friend and I saved enough to buy a VW convertible and at the end of our internships started on a six-month trip through the United States, including Alaska, traveling down the "Dream Street" of the world. It was then I realized that I wanted to remain in the United States. Because of my visa, I had to return to Germany for two years. By that time, I had married Dorothy, a young blonde nurse, and after two years in Europe, the two of us returned. In 1970, I finished my urology residency at Johns Hopkins and became chief resident. I practiced at both Hopkins and Union Memorial and also Greater Baltimore Medical Center and Baltimore City Hospital. I joined the AUA in 1976. William W. Scott, MD, my professor throughout my residency, had become the curator of the AUA's Didusch Museum after his retirement, and one time during rounds leaned over to me and whispered, "Rainer, would you like to become the next curator?" I was stunned and excited – and I agreed. That year I began to work with him, and, in the spring of 1993, took his last exhibit to San Antonio, and it was there that the board officially approved me as curator of the museum. Though I am retired now, I continue to teach at Johns Hopkins, as well as coordinate, prepare and execute exhibits for the museum and travel around the world gathering artifacts for the Didusch collection. And the "young blonde nurse"—my wonderful wife, Dorothy—not only condones my work at the museum, but shares my plans and works with me to make the museum great. For more information on Dr. Engel’s work with the William P. Didusch Center for Urologic History, see the article published by the Washington Post titled Man Goes to See a Doctor...

Nobel Prize winner Charles B. Huggins, MD was born on September 2, 1901 in Halifax, Nova Scotia where he went to public school and college. He then went to Harvard Medical School, where he was the youngest student in his class, and graduated in 1924. He subsequently moved to the University of Michigan where he did his internship and began his specialty training. He continued this training at the University of Chicago where he was offered a position as research assistant and, shortly thereafter, the directorship of the division of urology. Though his training had been in surgery, he accepted the offer and bought the Edward Keyes textbook Urology, which he literally memorized in a very short period of time. Early on, he was interested in scientific research and, in the 1950s, began to relinquish his surgical activities bit by bit. Dr. Huggins was known for his curiosity, creativity and almost old-fashioned hard work, frequently coupled with his delicate humor. His first major research dealt with induced transformation of one cell type into another, transforming fibrous tissue into bone by implanting bladder epithelium in a different host site. Dr. Huggins wrote about this: the actual value of this spectacular experiment was to lead a young practitioner into the delights of discovery in the exciting world of research. His next research activity dealt with the relation of body temperature to hematopoiesis in bone marrow. This work, based on transplantation of bone marrow from a rat tail into the abdomen, resulted in one of the three gold medals he received from the American Medical Association. As Dr. Huggins was asked by his patients about the function and purpose of the prostate, he realized that for both normal and diseased states, very few research papers existed. In the late 1930s (with his students Clarence V. Hodges and William W. Scott) he studied the relation between the endocrine system and function of the prostate gland, and later the control of inoperable prostate cancer. Until then metastatic pain had been treated by a radiation of nerve roots and through successively larger doses of alkaloids. Hormonally-induced regression of prostatic carcinoma, and particularly the resolution of pain, was many times quite spectacular. "Humanity owes a great debt to Charles Huggins," said Paul Talalay, director emeritus of the pharmacology department at The Johns Hopkins University and a previous student and collaborator of Dr. Huggins. In October 1966, Dr. Huggins received the highest decoration in the scientific world, the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine, jointly with the virologist Peyton Rous. It honors the importance of Huggins' work and research that influenced other scientists and their research relating to the behavior of cancer cells. His discovery opened an era of rational chemotherapy of malignant diseases through manipulation of the endocrine regulation. He was able to demonstrate in 1951 that breast cancer was, like prostate cancer, dependent on specific hormones, and that advanced breast cancer could be influenced positively through hormonal manipulation. However only 30 to 40 percent of women with breast cancer responded positively to this treatment. Huggins, searching for a method to predict positive responses, convinced his colleague Elwood Jensen at the Ben May Laboratories in Chicago to develop a method to identify estrogen receptors. This has led to today's classification of breast cancer as estrogen-receptor positive or negative, an important prognostic and therapeutic marker. The Ben May Laboratories at the University of Chicago were made possible through Huggins' contact with Ben May, a businessman from Alabama. After several years of discussions, Ben May agreed to support the Ben May Laboratory for Cancer Research (now the Ben May Institute for Cancer Research), which was opened in 1951 with Huggins as its first director, a position he kept until 1969, when Elwood Jensen succeeded him. Dr. Huggins received numerous awards and honorary degrees and, in addition to the Nobel Prize received the "Pour L'Merit Order of the Federal Republic of Germany" in 1958. The AUA awarded Dr. Huggins the Ramon Guiteras Award in 1966. He was the last of the original eight faculty members of the University of Chicago, and died on January 12, 1997 at the age of 95.

William Wallace Scott, MD (1913 - 2000) was born in Kansas City, Kansas, on January 27, 1913. He attended the University of Missouri at Columbia for four years and supported himself by driving a cleaning and pressing truck for Vanity Fair and working in the Sigma Nu fraternity house. Early in college, Dr. Scott aspired to become an engineer. However, after working in the research laboratory at the University of Chicago during the summer of 1932 and being exposed to his older brothers—one a physiology student and the other a medical student, he was convinced that a career in physiology or medicine was for him. Consequently, he began medical school at the University of Chicago in the fall of 1934. Dr. Scott received the Sydney Walker III Fellowship, which paid tuition for the final years of his schooling. This included graduate work culminating in a PhD in physiology in 1938 and an MD in 1939. After the first two years in medical school, during which he took all the electives in physiology and biochemistry, Dr. Scott decided to follow in his two brothers' footsteps and work toward a doctorate in physiology. His doctoral thesis was "The Physiology of Cerebral Concussion," and for a time he considered going into neurosurgery. However, after he obtained his medical degree and interned in surgery under Dallas B. Phemister, MD, a strange set of circumstances pushed him toward urology. Dr. Scott worked with Charles Huggins, MD and later became his resident and associate. Dr. Scott's experiences with Dr. Huggins convinced him that he wanted to pursue a life in urological surgery and research. Aside from his work on the prostate gland, Dr. Scott had an interest in renal transplantation. In the early 1950s he was the first—with Johan de Klerk, MD and H. William Scott, MD—to use cortisone in an effort to increase the length of survival of heterologous renal transplants in dogs. In Dr. Scott's 1965 presidential address to the Mid-Atlantic Section of the American Urological Association, he spoke on "The Training of a Resident" (unpublished). Much of what he said was to point out that a year in research during a clinical residency was very worthwhile, regardless of whether the trainee subsequently pursued a career in academic medicine or private practice. It was extremely gratifying to Scott that 22 of 65 of the residents training during his tenure later went on to head departments of urology in medical schools here and abroad. During his tenure, Dr. Scott gave 15 named lectures and participated in 25 visiting professorships. Among the lectures, he was most honored to give the Austin M. Curtis Memorial Lecture at Howard University, the first Nathan G. Alcock Lecture at the University of Iowa, the Ramon Guiteras Lecture, the Dallas B. Phemister Lecture and the Hugh Hampton Young Lecture. In addition to keeping busy with the affairs of the Brady Urologic Institute, Dr. Scott also served the faculty committees of the School of Medicine at Johns Hopkins and the National Institutes of Health and Armed Forces in Washington, DC. Scott received numerous awards. These included sharing the Gold Medal for Research in Prostatic Growth with Charles Huggins and Phillip Clark, presented in New York City in 1940 by the American Medical Association; the Distinguished Service Award of the university of Chicago in 1958; both the Barringer and Keyes medals of the American Association of Genito-Urinary Surgeons; the Ramon Guiteras Award* and the Eugene Fuller Triennial Award* of the AUA; and an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Missouri. He served as president of the Mid-Atlantic Section of the AUA in 1965 and of both the Clinical Society of Genito-Urinary Surgeons and the American Association of Genito-Urinary Surgeons in 1974 and 1978, respectively, and was an honorary member of several of the sections of the AUA and of the British Association of Urological Surgeons. Dr. Scott died in 2000.

Born January 20, 1914, Herbert Brendler, MD (1914-1986) of New York City, was the 79th AUA president after having served five years as AUA secretary. Dr. Brendler served on the editorial board of The Journal of Urology® and later became associate editor and editor in 1983. He served on the Residency Review Committee for urology from 1973 to 1979 and was also chairman of that committee. Dr. Brendler was urologist-in-chief and chairman of the department of urology at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York from 1963 to 1982. He received his bachelor's degree from Columbia University and his medical degree from New York University (NYU). He obtained his surgical experience in New York and completed his training in urology at the University of Virginia and The Johns Hopkins University. Prior to going to Mt. Sinai, Dr. Brendler served in the United States Navy in World War II. He also served on faculties at Hopkins, NYU and Bellevue Medical Center. Dr. Brendler was chairman of the Cooperative Study in Prostatic Cancer, Cancer Chemotherapy, National Service Center at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), from 1956 to 1963. He has also served as a New York section executive committeeman from 1965 to 1978, and subsequently, as the section's treasurer from 1966 to 1968 and as its president from 1969 to 1970. Dr. Brendler represented the New York Section on the AUA executive committee from 1971 to1977. He was elected secretary of the AUA in 1977; as secretary, he served as program committee chairman for the AUA conventions from 1978 through 1982. Under Dr. Brendler's leadership, the traditional format of the annual meeting's scientific session was re-designed to provide for both poster sessions and state-of-the-art lectures. Dr. Brendler, also a diplomate of the American Board of Urology, held membership in the American College of Surgeons, the American Association of Genito-Urinary Surgeons, the Clinical Society of Genito-Urinary Surgeons, the American Association of Clinical Urologists, the American Medical Association as well as numerous other national and foreign medical organizations. He traveled extensively and served as guest professor and special lecturer at many national and foreign universities and medical organizations. Dr. Brendler was author or co-author of approximately 150 scientific publications. Dr. Brendler died in 1986.

2025-04-18
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Daniel C. Bryant

Tags : 1950-1999 Boston USA

Category : CollectorDocs , WriterDocs

Daniel C. Bryant had collected 1.100 books by physician writers in English language. Later he donated it to the https://libraries.cmac.ws/frederick-l-ehrman-medical-library/20556/ in NYC.

The Maine physician, is delighted to have his work appear again in Sixfold. His stories have previously appeared in Nimrod, Bellevue Literary Review, Hospital Drive, Madison Review, and Crab Orchard Review, and the first chapter of his (so far unpublished) novel May We Waken One by One was published in Silk Road.

Kurzgeschichte | Short Story

Dr. Bryant’s Writings

Poetry
Literary magazines – The Café Review, Kennebec, Northern New England Review, Potato Eyes
Medical journals – Annals of Internal Medicine, Archives of Internal Medicine, JAMA, Journal of General Internal Medicine, Journal of Medical Humanities, The Western Journal of Medicine

Fiction
“Home free,” Bellevue Literary Review 3, No. 1 (2003): 127-134

Essays
“A roster of twentieth-century physicians writing in English,” Literature and Medicine 13, No. 2 (1994): 284-305
“Telling tales out of school – Portrayals of the medical student experience by physician-novelists,” Journal of Medical Humanities 17, No. 4 (1996): 237-254
“Hospitalists and officists: Preparing for the future of General Internal Medicine,” Journal of General Internal Medicine 14 (1999): 182-185

Crossword Puzzles
Los Angeles Times, November 1, 2003
New York Times, April 22, 2004

https://www.mdedge.com/content/revering-work-physician-writers-1

The links in this table have been changed by the library obviously. Many of the physician writerDocs re already represented in THIS web (click the links), you find more here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physician_writer

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichterarzt

Name	Birth-Death	Birth Country
Abe Kobo	1924-1993	Japan
Ablow , Keith	1961-	USA
Abse, Dannie	1923-	Wales
Akenside, Mark	1721-1770	England
Aksyonov (Aksenov), Vasily	1932-	Russia
Alsop, Reese	1913-	USA
Amosov, N.M.	1913-	Russia
Anscombe, Roderick	1947-	England/USA
Antunes, Antonio Lobo	1942-	Portugal
Arbuthnot, John	1667-1735	Scotland
Armattoe, Raphael	1913-1953	Ghana
Armstrong, John	1709-1779	Scotland
Ashdown, Clifford
Atkins, Charles	1961-	USA
Avicenna (Ibn Sina)	980-1037	Persia
Ayvazian, L. Fred	1919-	Turkey/USA
Flagg, Kenneth
Levon, Fred
Azimov, Janet	1926-	USA
Azuela, Mariano	1873-1952	Mexico
Balfour, James	1925-	England
Ball, Doris Bell	1897-1987	England
Bell, Josephine
Bamforth, Iain	1959-	Scotland
Barahona, Luis DeSoto	1548-1595	Spain
Barnard, Christiaan	1922-	South Africa
Barnsley, Alan Gabriel	1916-1986	England
Fielding, Gabriel
Baroja, Pio	1872-1956	Spain
Bates, David Vincent	1922-	England/Canada
Bax, Martin	1933-	England
Beauchemin, Neree	1850-1931	Canada
Beddoes, Thomas Lovell	1803-1849	England
Beernink, K.D.	1938-1969	USA
Benjamin, Claude	1911-	USA
Edwards, Max
George, Marion E.
Benn, Gottfried	1886-1956	Germany
Berdoe, Edward	1836-1916	England
Scalpel, Aesculapius
Bird, Robert Montgomery	1806-1854	USA
Biro, David		USA
Blackmore, Richard	1654-1729	England
Block, William A.		USA
Boas, Maurits Ignatius	1892-1986	USA
Borodin, George
Brain, Walter Russell	1895-1966	England
Bridges, Robert	1844-1930	England
Bridie, James	1888-1951	Scotland
Henderson, Mary
Mavor, Osborne Henry
Briffault, Robert	1876-1940	England
Brown, John	1810-1882	Scotland
Browne, Sir Thomas	1605-1682	England
Buckman, Robert	1948-	England
Bulgakov, Mikhail	1891-1940	Russia
Buttenwieser, Paul	1938-	USA
Byron, Ronald		South Africa
Campion, Thomas	1567-1620	England
Campo, Rafael	1964-	USA
Canin, Ethan	1960-	USA
Carossa, Hans	1878-1956	Germany
Caruthers, William A.	1802-1846	USA
Cary, Falkland	1897-1989	Ireland
Casberg, Melvin Augustus	1909-	USA
Celine, Louis-Ferdinand	1894-1961	France
Destouches, Louis-Ferdinand
Chamberlayne, William	1619-1689	England
Channing, Walter	1786-1862	USA
Charach, Ron	1951-	Canada
Chekhov, Anton	1860-1904	Russia
Chivers, Thomas Holley	1807-1858	USA
Chopra, Deepak	1947-	India/USA
Church, Benjamin	1734-1778	USA
Close, William T.	1924-	USA
Cloud, Daniel T.	1925-	USA
Coelho, Joaquim	1839-1871	Portugal
Dinis, Julio
Coldsmith, Don	1926-	USA
Coles, Abraham	1813-1891	USA
Coles, Robert	1929-	USA
Comfort, Alex	1920-2000	England
Conway, Peter
Cook, Robin	1940-	USA
Cooper, Rosaleen	1894-1989	England
Copman, Louis	1934-	USA
Coulehan, Jack	1943-	USA
Cowley, Abraham	1618-1667	England
Crabbe, George	1754-1832	England
Creel, Stephen Melville	1938-	USA
Sachem, E.B.
Crichton, J. Michael	1942-	USA
Hudson, Jeffery
Lange, John
Cronin, A. J.	1896-1981	England
Crowley, Robert T.	1913-	USA
Csath, Geza	1887-1919	Hungary
Cunningham, Robert S.	1907-	USA
Cuthbert, Margaret	1954-	USA
DaCosta, John Chalmers	1863-1933	USA
Darwin, Erasmus	1731-1802	England
Davis, Loyal	1896-1982	USA
Deeping, Warwick	1877-1950	England
Destouches, Louis-Ferdinand
Celine, Louis-Ferdinand
Deza, Ernest C.	1923-	Phillipines/USA
Dinis, Julio
Coelho, Joaquim
Dismond, Henry Binga	1891-1956	USA
Doblin, Alfred	1878-1957	Germany
Doctor X
Nourse, Alan Edward
Dorsett, Thomas	1945-	USA
Downman, Hugh	1740-1809	England
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan	1859-1930	Scotland
Drachman, Theodore S.	1904-1988	USA
Drake, Joseph	1795-1820	USA
Drummond, William H.	1854-1907	Canada
Duffy, Philip Edward	1923-	USA
Duhamel, Georges	1884-1966	France
Dunn, Hugh Patrick	1916-	New Zealand
Dwyer-Joyce, Alice	1913-	Ireland
Easmon, R. Sarif	1930-	Sierra Leone
Eeden, Frederik Willem Van	1860-1932	Holland
Eisenberg, Ronald L.	1945-	USA
Ellis, Havelock	1859-1940	England
El Saadawi, Nawal	1931-	Egypt
Emmott, Kirsten	1947-	Canada
Engelberg, Alan D.	1941-	USA
Engel, Alan
English, Thomas Dunn	1819-1902	USA
Fairchild, Brad
Forester, Bruce
Ferron, Jacques	1921-1985	Canada
Fisher, Michael John	1933-	England
Fisher, Rudolph	1897-1934	USA
Fitzwilliam, Michael
Fleming, Paul	1609-1640	Germany
Forester, Bruce	1939-	USA
Fairchild, Brad
Foxe, Arthur Norman	1902-1982	USA
Fracastoro, Girolamo	1478-1553	Italy
Free, Spencer Michael	1856-1938	USA
Freeman, Richard Austin	1862-1943	England
Ashdown, Clifford
Garth, Samuel	1661-1719	England
Gash, Jonathan
Grant, John
Gaunt, Graham
Gawande, Atul	1965-	USA
George, Marion E.
Gerritsen , Terry	1953-	USA
Gerritsen, Tess
Glasser, Ronald J.	1940-	USA
Gogarty, Oliver St. John	1878-1957	Ireland
Goldberg, E. Marshall	1930-	USA
Goldberg, Leonard S.	1936-	USA
Goldsborough, Robert
Palmer, John Ransom
Goldsworthy, Peter	1951-	Australia
Goldszmit, Henryk	1878-1942	Poland
Korczak, Janusz
Gonzalez-Crussi, Frank	1936-	Mexico/USA
Gonzalez Martinez, Enrique	1871-1952	Mexico
Gordon, Richard
Ostlere, Gordon
Grainger, James	1721-1766	Scotland
Grant, James Russell	1924-	England
Grant, John	1933-	England
Gash, Jonathan
Gaunt, Graham
Greer, Douglas	1939-	USA
Grevin, Jacques	1538-1570	France
Guirdham, Arthur	1905-	England
Eaglesfield, Francis
Gyllensten, Lars	1921-	Sweden
Hake, Thomas Gordon	1809-1895	Ireland
Halberstam, Michael	1932-1980	USA
Ha-Lev, Judah	1075-1141	Spain
Haller, Albrecht von	1708-1777	Switzerland
Hammond, William A.	1828-1900	USA
Hard, Edward W., Jr.	1939-	USA
Hard, T.W
Hart, Alan	1890-1962	USA
Head, Sir Henry	1861-1940	England
Hejinian, John	1941-	USA
Hellerstein, David	1953-	USA
Helman, Cecil G.	1944-	S. Africa/England
Henshaw, James Ene	1924-	Nigeria
Hibberd, Jack	1940-	Australia
Hilfiker, David	1945-	USA
Hirschhorn, Richard Clark	1933-	USA
Hoffmann, Heinrich	1809-1894	Germany
Holmes, Oliver Wendell	1809-1894	USA
Holub, Miroslav	1923-1998	Czechoslovakia
Hornberger, H. Richard	1924-1997	USA
Hooker, Richard
Hume, Edward H.	1876-1957	USA
Huygen, Wil Joseph	1922-	Netherlands
Huyler, Frank D.	1964-	USA
Idris, Yusuf	1927-	Egypt
Iovino, Rita		USA
Jefferson, Roland	1939-	USA
Jelly, George Oliver	1909-	England
Fosse, Alfred
Harsch, Hilya
Jenner, Edward	1749-1823	England
Jeppson, Janet O.	1926-	USA
Jersild, Per Christian	1935-	Sweden
Jones, Alice A.	1949-	USA
Joseph, Robert Farras	1935-	USA
Jung-Stilling, Johann	1740-1817	Germany
Kahn, James	1947-	USA
Kappelman, Murray M.	1931-	USA
Keats, John	1795-1821	England
Keller, David H.	1880-1966	USA
Kenealy, Arabella	-1932	England
Kerner, Justinus	1786-1862	Germany
Kerr, James	1923-	USA
Keynes, Geoffrey	1887-1982	England
Klass, Perri	1958-	USA
Klawans, Harold	1937-1997	USA
Klitzman, Robert	1958-	USA
Knickerbocker, Charles H.	1922-	USA
Knight, Bernard	1931-	Wales
Picton, Bernard
Kra, Siegfried	1930-	Poland/USA
Kreitman, Norman	1927-	Scotland
Kreutzwald, F. Reinhold	1803-1882	Estonia
Kudirka, Vincas	1858-1899	Lithuania
Laing, Ronald David	1927-1989	Scotland
Lake, George Burt	1880-1943	USA
Langer, Frantisek	1888-1965	Czechoslovakia
Lascola, Ray L.	1915-	USA
LeBaron, Charles	1943-	USA
Lee, Benjamin	1921-	England
Leipoldt, C. Louis	1880-1947	South Africa
Lem, Stanislaw	1921-	Poland
Levi, Carlo	1902-1975	Italy
Levy, Harry	1944-	USA
Lieberman, Michael W.	1941-	USA
Lima, Jorge de	1895-1953	Brazil
Liveson, Jay	1937-	USA
Lodge, Thomas	1557?-1625	England
Lowbury, Edward	1913-	England
Lulham, P. Habberton	1865-1940	England
Luzzatto, Ephraim	1729-1792	Italy
Lydston, G. Frank	1858-1923	USA
Lyons, J.B.	1922-	Ireland
Fitzwilliam, Michael
Mack, John Edward	1929-	USA
Macphail, Sir Andrew	1864-1938	Canada
Mair, George Brown	1914-	Scotland
MacDouall, Robertson
Malcolm, Andrew	1927-	Canada
Malcolm, Ian
Maltz, Maxwell	1899-1975	USA
Mandeville, Bernard de	1670-1733	England
Maraire, Nozipo	1966-	Zimbabwe
Marat, Jean-Paul	1743-1793	France
Marion, Robert W.	1952-	USA
Marti-Ibanez, Felix	1912-1972	Spain/USA
Martin-Santos, Luis	1924-1964	Spain
Massad, Stewart	1958-	USA
Mates, Susan Onthank	1950-	USA
Maugham, W. Somerset	1874-1965	England
Mays, James A.	1939-	USA
McClintock, Andrew	1885-1923	USA
McCrae, John	1872-1918	Canada
McGlashan, Alan Fleming	1898-	England
Merliss, Reuben	1915-	USA
Meyers, Michael Jay	1946-	USA
Milkomane, George	1903-	Russia/England
Borodin, George
Braddon, George
Conway, Peter
Redwood, Alec
Sava, George
Miller, Benjamin Frank	1907-1971	USA
Miller, Jonathan	1934-	England
Miller, Timothy	1938-	USA
Mitchell, John Kearsley	1798-1858	USA
Mitchell, Silas Weir	1829-1914	USA
Mitra, Amitabh	1955-	India/S.Africa
Modarressi, Taghi	1931-	Iran/USA
Moir, David MacBeth	1798-1851	Scotland
Delta
Monger, David	1908-1972	Wales
Mannigan, Peter
Richards, Peter
Moolten, David	1961-	USA
Moore, Merrill	1903-1957	USA
Mori Rintaro	1862-1922	Japan
Mori Ogai
Morrice, J.K.W.	1924-	Scotland
Morrice, Ken
Mulkeen, Thomas P.	1923-	USA
Munthe, Axel	1857-1949	Sweden
Murphy, Arthur Lister	1906-	Canada
Nasrin, Taslima	1962-	Bangladesh
Nathanson, Laura Walther	1941-	USA
Thorpe, J.K.
Nemeth, Laszlo	1901-1975	Hungary
Nesvadba, Josef	1926-	Czechoslovakia
Neto, Agostinho	1922-1979	Angola
Neuman, Fredric	1934-	USA
Newbold, H.L.	1921-	USA
Nicol, Abioseh	1924-	Sierra Leone
Nordau, Max	1849-1923	Hungary
Norman, Robert A.	1955-	USA
Nourse, Alan E.	1928-1992	USA
Doctor X
Edwards, Al
Nuland, Sherwin B.	1930-	USA
Ober, William	1920-1993	USA
Offit, Avodah Komito	1931-	USA
Okun, Lawrence E.	1929-	USA
Olgin, Howard A.	1939-	USA
O’Neill, John	1956-	USA
Osler, Sir William	1849-1920	Canada/USA
Ostlere, Gordon	1921-	England
Gordon, Richard
Pacheco, Ferdie	1927-	USA
Palmer, John Ransom	1905-1948	USA
Goldsborough, Robert
Palmer, Michael	1942-	USA
Panneton, Philippe	1895-1962	Canada
Ringuet
Papadimitrakopoulos, Elias	1930-	Greece
Parrish, John A.	1939-	USA
Peacocke, James S.		USA
Peck, M.Scott	1936-	USA
Penfield, Wilder	1891-1976	Canada
Penman, John	1913-	England
Percival, James Gates	1795-1856	USA
Percy, Walker	1916-1990	USA
Perry, Grace	1927-1987	Australia
Peters, Lenrie	1932-	Gambia
Pieczenik, Steve	1943-	USA
Pies, Ronald	1952-	USA
Polidori, J.W.	1795-1821	England
Powell, Craig	1940-	Australia
Rabelais, Francois	1483-1553	France
Ravin, Neil	1947-	USA
Redi, Francesco	1626-1697	Italy
Reiter, B.P.	1945-	USA
Rizal, Jose	1861-1896	Philippines
Roe, Francis	1932-	England/USA
Rogers, Peter Damien	1942-	USA
Reilly, Patrick D.
Rosa, Joao Guimaraes	1908-1967	Brazil
Rosenbaum, Jean	1927-	USA
Rosenberg, Stephen N.	1941-	USA
Ross, Sir Ronald	1857-1932	England
Rowland, Henry	1874-1933	USA
Rubin, Theodore Isaac	1923-	USA
Ruotolo, Andrew K.	1926-1979	USA
Ruskin, Ronald	1944-	Canada
Sacks, Oliver	1933-	England/USA
Saga, Junichi	1941-	Japan
Sa’idi, Ghulam Husayn	1936-1985	Iran
Saito, Mokichi	1882-1953	Japan
Sakabe, Yoshio	1924-	Japan
Sams, Ferrol	1922-	USA
Savage, T.J.	1855-1929	USA
Scannell, Kate	1953-	USA
Scheffler, Johannes	1624-1677	Germany
Silesius, Angelus
Schiedermayer, David L.	1955-	USA
Schiller, Friedrich von	1759-1805	Germany
Schmidt, Werner Felix	1923-	USA
Schneiderman, L.J.	1932-	USA
Schnitzler, Arthur	1862-1931	Austria
Schwarz, Liese O’Halloran	1963-	USA
Scliar, Moacyr	1937-	Brazil
Seddon, Andrew M.	1959-	England/USA
Segalen, Victor	1878-1919	France
Selzer, Richard	1928-	USA
Sheley, Glenn E.	1911-	USA
Shem, Samuel	1944-	USA
Sherrington, Sir Charles	1861-1952	England
Shiff, Nathan	1914-	USA
Shlian, Deborah
Shobin, David	1945-	USA
Shore, Henry	1912-1977	England
Shubert, J. Lansing	1956-	USA
Shulman, Neil	1945-	USA
Siegel, Marc		USA
Sigerson, George	1838-1925	Ireland
Silverman, Gerry	1938-	England
Simmons, Earl M.		USA
Simmons, Geoffrey	1943-	USA
Sinclair, Alison	1959-	England/Canada
Slaughter, Frank	1908-	USA
Terry, C.V.
Shlian, Deborah	1948	USA
Jessup, Kathryn
Smollett, Tobias	1721-1771	Scotland
Snodgrass, Steven	1957-	USA
Sobel, Irwin Philip	1901-1991	USA
Starkey, William	1836-1918	Ireland
Stein, Michael	1960-	USA
Stern, Karl	1906-1975	Germany/Canada
Stollman, Aryeh	1954-	USA
Stone, John	1936-	USA
Strasburger, Victor C.	1949-	USA
Straus, Marc J.	1943-	USA
Strobos, Robert Julius	1921-	USA
Suyin, Han	1917-	China
Thomas, Lewis	1913-1993	USA
Ticknor, Francis Orray	1822-1874	USA
Todhunter, John	1839-1916	Ireland
Tschernichowsky, Saul	1875-1943	Russia
Tsypkin, Leonid	1926-1982	Russia
Turnbull, Gael	1928-	England
Tushnet, Leonard	1908-1973	USA
Vaughan, Henry	1622-1695	Wales
Verghese, Abraham	1955-	Ethiopia/USA
Vivante, Arturo	1923-	Italy/USA
Wagner, Karl Edward	1945-1994	USA
Walton, George	1887-1963	Canada
Watson, Edward Willard	1843-1925	USA
Weeder, Richard S.	1936-	USA
Weiner, Howard L.	1944-	USA
Weiss, Ernst	1882-1940	Austria
Weissmann, Gerald	1930-	Austria/USA
Wheelis, Allen B.	1915-	USA
Wheldon, David	1950-	England
Whitaker, Phil	1966-	England
Wiggins, Christopher E.	1946-	USA
Wigglesworth, Michael	1631-1675	USA
Williams, William Carlos	1883-1963	USA
Willocks, Timothy	1957-	England
Wilson, F. Paul	1946-	USA
Wilson, Hunter	1927-	USA
Wilson, John Rowan	1919-	England
Wolcott, Jon	1738-1819	England
Pindar, Peter
Wolff, Charlotte	1904-	Germany/England
Wright, Charles H.	1918-	USA
Yalom, Irvin D.	1931-	USA
Yanovsky, V.S.	1906-1989	Russia/USA
Yanovsky, Basile S.
Young, C. Dale	1969-	Caribbean/USA
Young, Francis Brett	1884-1954	England
Young, George		USA
Zack, Michael Baruch	1943-	USA
Zaffran, Marc	1955-	France
Winkler, Martin
Zinsser, Hans	1878-1940	USA
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Keith Ablow

Tags : 1950-1999 Boston USA

Category : JournalistDocs , ProducerDocs , TeacherDocs , TV-doc , WriterDocs

Keith Russell Ablow (born November 23, 1961) is an American author, life coach, former television personality, and former psychiatrist. He is a former contributor for Fox News Channel and TheBlaze.

Formerly an assistant clinical professor at Tufts University School of Medicine,^[2] Ablow resigned as a member of the American Psychiatric Association in 2011, in protest to the APA’s tacit support of transgender surgeries, which he considered irresponsible.^[3] Ablow’s medical license was suspended in May 2019 by the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine. The board concluded he posed an “immediate and serious threat to the public health, safety and welfare”, stating that he had engaged in sexual and unethical misconduct towards patients.

Ablow was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, the son of Jewish parents Jeanette Norma and Allan Murray Ablow. Ablow attended Marblehead High School, graduating in 1979.^[6] He graduated from Brown University in 1983, magna cum laude, with a Bachelor of Science degree in neurosciences. He received his Doctor of Medicine degree from Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1987^[7] and completed his psychiatry residency at the Tufts-New England Medical Center. He was Board Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology in psychiatry in 1993 and forensic psychiatry in 1999.^[8]

While a medical student, he worked as a reporter for Newsweek and a freelancer for The Washington Post and Baltimore Sun and USA Today. After his residency, Ablow served as medical director of the Tri-City Mental Health Centers and then became medical director of Heritage Health Systems and Associate Medical Director of Boston Regional Medical Center.

Ablow has written columns for publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, USA Today, Newsweek, The Baltimore Sun, The Boston Herald and FoxNews.com. He has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Today Show, The Howard Stern Show, Good Morning America, CBS Early Show, Larry King Live, The Tyra Banks Show, Nancy Grace (CNN) program, Catherine Crier Live, The Dr. Oz Show, Fox & Friends, Geraldo, Imus, Montel, Inside Edition, Showbiz Tonight, and The O’Reilly Factor.^[11] Ablow has written 15 books, some published by the American Psychiatric Association, been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association and written for Psychiatric Times.^[12]

Keith Ablow

From June 2006 through September 2007, Ablow was host and executive producer of his own national daily talk show, The Dr. Keith Ablow Show, syndicated by Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution. Since his show’s cancellation, Ablow has been a contributing editor for Good Housekeeping and a columnist for the New York Post. He contributed commentary and analysis for the Fox News Channel until 2017.

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Katherine Zhou

Tags : 1950-1999 Durham NC USA

Category : CarillonDocs

https://medicine.duke.edu/profile/katherine-zhou

What are your interests outside of medicine?
I like to play the carillon. I haven’t made it to the Duke Chapel carillon yet, but I hope to sometime. I also like traveling with family, and watching shows with my fiancé in our free time.

katherine.i.zhou@duke.edu

2025-04-17
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Tom Tarter

Tags : 1950-1999 USA

Category : CarDoc , MotorBikeDocs , WeightLifterDocs

A decade out of med school, Tom was confident in his ability to handle any case that came into the emergency department at Bloomington Hospital.

In need of some doctoring

NOVA: Are you glad you became a doctor?

Tom Tarter: I couldn’t imagine myself doing anything else but what I do. Well, that’s not entirely true—I could be a mechanic. But I do love emergency medicine. I just love it.

Q: I can tell. You light up when you talk about it.

Tom: Yeah.

Q: Can you tell me a little bit about your own health?

Tom: Sure. I’ve just been running so hard, trying to get my life together, that my health has really gone to hell in a handbasket. For the last three years, I haven’t had any health insurance. I’ve gained a monstrous amount of weight. And I smoke. So these are issues that I really have to address. I’ve had multiple orthopedic procedures for injuries from when I was involved in weight lifting and motorcycles. So I have quite a bit of pain to deal with. But I think everything will get a lot better when I lose 100 pounds and quit smoking.

Q: Why haven’t you had health insurance?

Tom: I couldn’t afford it.

Q: It seems ironic that you’re a physician and not able to afford health insurance.

Tom: Health insurance would cost my family close to $2,000 a month for the four of us. I just can’t do it. Now, my wife just got a job, and we’re gonna be able to get coverage under her policy at work. But I’m kind of like a freelance worker, so I have no insurance, haven’t had it for years.

Q: You must be able to relate to people you see in the hospitals without insurance.

Tom: Yeah. You’ve gotta do what you gotta do to get by. If it’s a choice between paying your mortgage, or getting your house foreclosed, or doing without health insurance, well, we all have to make those choices. I still am living in my house.

Q: Do you think our health-care system is broken?

Tom: The health-care system in this country is a mess. There’s a horrendous amount of waste and abuse on both sides of the line. I’m pretty familiar with both sides. The answer certainly isn’t as simple as just throwing a bunch of money at it. There has to be fundamental change in the way medicine is structured in this country. Really it would be best to throw the whole system out and start from scratch.

in the ER

weightlifter

Tom Tarter

as medical student

Despite the hardships in his career, Tom Tarter wouldn't choose to be anything else but a doctor.

In the summer of 2008, Tom was working at a VA hospital in Tacoma, Washington.

Fighting stereotypes

Q: When you were in medical school, you felt like the odd man out. Do you still feel that way as a doctor now?

Tom: Guys like me aren’t supposed to be in medicine. I’m from a poor family, broken home, and I didn’t go to any special schools. I’ve never fit in, really, for that reason. On top of that, I’m a bit of a freethinker.

Q: Has your tendency to challenge the status quo gotten you into trouble?

Tom: Lots of trouble.

Q: Talk about that.

Tom: I’ve gotten into trouble for all kinds of ridiculous things. For instance, I once had a patient who had bad sleep apnea, and on top of that, he had hay fever. He hadn’t slept for days and was virtually at the point of suicide. Well, I asked this nurse for a medication called Afrin, which you can buy at any drugstore. This would open up his sinuses, and he’d be able to sleep. The nurse said, “We don’t have it, and I’m not gonna even look for it.”

I happened to have an unopened bottle of this stuff in my bag. He tried it. It opened up his nose, and he was real happy. But I got read the riot act for giving home-brewed medications that weren’t approved by the hospital.

Basically, they didn’t want me there. I wasn’t the stereotypical doctor, and they wanted me out of there. I’ve had multiple experiences like that.

Q: It must be depressing at times.

Tom: It’s very depressing. [laughs] It is.

“A lot of people just don’t understand that everybody isn’t stamped out of the same cookie cutter…”

Q: Have you tried to conform to fit in?

Tom: I’ve done everything—I’ve cut my hair, I’ve worn the white coats, cleaned up my act as much as I possibly can. But there’s just something about me—the way I’ve been raised, the story of my life, the way I think, the way I am. It just says, “This guy isn’t your typical doctor.”

Q: Do you think it’s fair that people in management may judge you on superficial things like your tattoos?

Tom: Well, I don’t think people should judge me by my tattoos, by the way I wear my hair. These people have access to my CV. They see that I graduated from Harvard, that I’ve been working for 15 years as a board-certified, high-trauma emergency doctor. I’ve never been sued, never been named in a case. They see this stuff.

I think part of why the medical community, in general, doesn’t communicate well with the public is because most doctors were hand-selected from upper middle class families. They don’t relate to working-class people and don’t acknowledge working-class people as being worthwhile. You know? If you don’t enjoy golf, if you don’t hate tattoos, if you smoke cigarettes, you’re dirt. And if you think that way, well, you’re not going to like me.

Q: Are you angry?

Tom: I don’t think I’m particularly angry, no. I don’t blame anybody. It hurts and it’s depressing, absolutely.

A lot of people just don’t understand that everybody isn’t stamped out of the same cookie cutter, that people are different and that’s okay. It seems to be less so at my current job—in the VA [Veterans Affairs hospitals], soldiers are much more similar to myself. We seem to understand each other better. I think there’s less of a boundary between the socioeconomic classes, and a lot of the other physicians there were ex-soldiers themselves. So I think it’s a better spot for me. But in the private sector, it’s tough. It is tough.

Q: I’ve seen you with patients. You’re amazing with patients. They really respond to you.

Tom: Yeah, it’s funny. Patients seem to really gravitate towards me. It’s just the administrators and other doctors who sometimes have trouble with me.

Q: In the future, would you like to stay with the VA because it’s a better fit?

Tom: That’s pretty much what I’m thinking. I’ll probably continue working at the VA as long as they want me. And we’ll see.

One thing I like about the VA is we get to spend a decent amount of time with patients. The people who work at the VA, at least where I’m working, really care about giving good health care. These are vets who have served their country, and we want to do a good job of taking care of them.

Q: Are there other things you see ahead in your career?

Tom: I’d like to do some kind of activism. I really would. We live in the greatest country in the world, yet we’re falling apart. I’d love to get involved in some kind of activism, whether it’s in the health-care field or just political activism. I’m an old hippie, and I’ve always wanted to make some kind of positive change.

Q: You would make a great activist.

A downward spiral

Q: You were a pretty seasoned doctor when I last saw you here [in Bloomington, Indiana] in 2000.

Tom: Yeah. It took me about 15 years of medical training to really feel comfortable in the emergency department, to feel that I was a competent physician. But I did feel that way, and I do now.

Q: What started to go wrong after I last visited?

Tom: Well, I kind of had two crises going at the same time. My third marriage, of course, did not work out. It was probably a very poorly advised thing for the two of us to get married to start with. And my life in medicine was great in terms of my love of doing it, but it went downhill in other ways.

I had been recruited to what was at the time the only hospital in Bloomington, and after a falling-out with the people who run the emergency department, I no longer was able to work in Bloomington. That put me in a difficult situation, ’cause I’d bought this house, and I had begun to put down roots here.

“I have a wonderful wife. She’s just absolutely the greatest. I love her like nobody I’ve ever met before.”

Emergency department doctors have to work within the boundaries of a hospital. We don’t have the choice of just opening up a practice. After I left Bloomington Hospital, I took some jobs at hospitals here and there, essentially working for an agency that placed me at different facilities.

Q: So now you are something of an itinerant doctor.

Tom: Right. I’ve been bouncing around, from one job to another, sometimes having to drive four or five hours to get to a job. Currently, I’m taking planes to anywhere from Seattle, Washington to St. Thomas, Virgin Islands just to find work.

Q: Financially, it’s been tough for you. What’s happened to your credit rating?

Tom: Because of some circumstances surrounding the divorce, my credit rating has gone down the toilet, and right now I couldn’t get a credit card from Sears if I wanted to. During the divorce, I was court-ordered by the judge to turn over one of our cars to [my ex-wife]. She was court-ordered to pay the payments on the car and the insurance. Well, she didn’t.

When I heard that the car was impounded, I paid off what was owed and got the car back. I contacted the credit company and said, “Would it be possible to get some kind of forbearance, given that I was court-ordered to give this car to this woman?” They said, “No, it’s going on your credit score.” That set up a spiral where my credit has just gone so far down the toilet it’s laughable.

Q: Did you imagine when you were in med school that you might be in this place financially after you became a doctor?

Tom: I never expected that I would be almost as broke as I was before I went to medical school and possibly looking at bankruptcy. It blows my mind completely.

The business of emergency medicine

Q: Do you think that most emergency departments are managed with too much of a business mentality?

Tom: The doctors who run these groups [that have contracts to manage emergency departments] have become businessmen. They’ve adopted models of how medicine should be practiced based on corporate models.

They measure how well their business is doing like McDonald’s would. They issue questionnaires on patient satisfaction. Actually, they stop calling patients “patients.” They refer to them as customers. They talk about customer satisfaction. Well, unfortunately, medicine doesn’t fit that paradigm. You cannot use the same paradigm for selling hamburgers as for taking care of an ill patient.

You’re not always making people happy when you’re making them healthy. Sometimes you’re pissing them off. So these tools to measure patient satisfaction don’t measure the quality of the health care. Here’s a basic example: Every emergency physician deals with a patient who abuses prescription pain medicines, who is trying to get pain medicine to use or sell. If you say, “We’re not gonna give you narcotics,” this person blows a fit. When this person gets his exit questionnaire, and it says, “Are you happy with the care you got?” he’s gonna say no.

So these questionnaires can encourage physicians to do bad things-—give narcotics when they’re not warranted, give unnecessary antibiotics, order too many tests. Ordering lots of tests makes everybody happy, because you can bill more. These are all things that corporate emergency medicine encourages. And if you try to buck that system, you’re gone. You’re toast. You’re history.

Q: Do you think emergency departments are a particularly troubled part of the health-care system?

Tom: What’s happening in emergency medicine is really very dire, and there isn’t much appreciation for it. A lot of people don’t even know how emergency departments are run. They think that doctors from the hospital fill shifts, which hasn’t happened since the 1970s.

Still grateful

Q: Knowing what you do now about emergency medicine, would you go down this path again?

Tom: You bet I’d do it all over again. I love emergency medicine. I love it. I wouldn’t want to do anything else. I know that when somebody walks into my emergency department, no matter what’s wrong with them, I can give them their best shot at getting better. I wouldn’t trade that for the world.

Q: When you can’t save someone, how does it feel to have to tell their loved ones? Have you dealt with death so much by this point in your career that it feels normal?

Tom: It never feels normal or okay to inform someone that their loved one’s died or to inform someone that they have a terminal illness. It’s a horrible thing to do. I empathize with their pain, and I’d rather stick hot pins in my eyes than tell somebody that their life mate has died. Unfortunately, someone has to do it, and often that’s me. So I try to do it in the most compassionate way that I can.

“You take what life gives you. If I had a magic wand that could change it, believe me, I would.”

Q: Given all the difficulties in your life, are there still things for which you’re thankful?

Tom: I have a wonderful wife. She’s just absolutely the greatest. I love her like nobody I’ve ever met before. She’s so hardworking and level-headed and smart. She doesn’t even know how smart she is, how much insight she has. She’s just fantastic.

We live in a beautiful town. We have this beautiful land and beautiful house. I’m very grateful for all those things—I’m just afraid they’re all going to get taken away. Well, they’re not going to take away my wife, but we could end up living in refrigerator boxes. We always kid about that.

Q: How do you feel about participating in this series, our following you for 21 years?

Tom: I really am very happy to have done it. It’s been very therapeutic, allowed me get a lot of things off my chest. It’s almost like analysis or something.

Q: What would you say to a young person who thought he or she wanted to be an emergency-medicine doctor?

Tom: There’s a lot to think about. You can definitely get a better return for less investment working in other fields of medicine. You can do something like become a physician’s assistant or a certified nurse anesthetist. You don’t have to sell your soul for half your life to get there. So I advise people to strongly consider that they’re going to have to work very hard for many, many years for very little pay. They may have to borrow money for a good part of it, come out in debt. It’s a tough road.

Q: If you could do some things in your life differently, what are some of the life lessons you’ve learned?

Tom: Watch out for adjustable-rate mortgages, watch out for cars that don’t get good gas mileage. I don’t know. Try to smell good all the time. That’s about it.

Q: You have been under such stress in the last few years. I can’t even imagine it. It must be exhausting.

Tom: Yeah, but you take what life gives you. If I had a magic wand that could change it, believe me, I would. My wife and I constantly brainstorm to try to think of ways to turn things around. We’re doing the best we can. If anybody has a better idea, write to Tom Tarter, care of WGBH, and let me know. [laughs] I’m open for suggestions.

Thomas Edwin Ellenberger

Tags : 1950-1999 Boston USA

Category : CarDoc

Wolfgang,

I enjoyed viewing the hobbies listed on your website. Most are more high-minded than mine. In recent years I have resumed an old hobby from my mispent youth that might be properly characterized as “grease monkey-doc.” I restore old Porsche 911s in my spare time (attached photos) and find it to be very relaxing working with my hands.

With Regards,

Tom

Eric Schendel

Tags : 1950-1999 USA

Category : (water-)skiingDocs , ComputerDocs , HikingDocs , SailingDocs , travelDocs , WriterDocs

Brief Autobiography
Copyright © 1998-2002 by
Eric Schendel, M.D. (Reproduced with permission)

Hello! I am Eric Schendel, owner of The Lifestyle Doctor. I am a personal technology consultant and I also teach people how to successfully run a business from their home on their computer. Here is a brief summary of my background and interests.

My family moved down to Mexico when I was seven and we lived there eleven years, mostly in a little town called San Miguel de Allende. When we returned to the States we settled in Texas where I completed high school and attended college and medical school. In 1984, I fell in love with computers and what they could do to improve the practice of medicine. My first computer was a KayPro II and my second was a PC clone made by Heath, which came in a kit which had to be assembled—I even had to solder the components onto the circuit boards! Later I joined a locum tenens company (medical temporary agency) so that I could complete a Ph.D. in bioengineering with a major in computerized medical diagnostics. Now Big Planet offers me a chance to share some of my computer knowledge and my passion for technology with other people.

I live in Seattle with my wife Fionnuala and our son Keith.
Recreational interests include writing, skiing, sailing, hiking and traveling.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-schendel-md-599667108

Judith Orloff

Tags : 1950-1999 Los Angeles USA

Category : SpiritualDocs , TV-doc , WriterDocs

Judith Orloff (born June 25, 1951)^[1] is an American board-certified psychiatrist, self-claimed clairvoyant (psychic),^[2][3][4] and the author of five books.

Judith Orloff MD is the NY Times bestselling author of The Genius of Empathy and The Empath’s Survival Guide. Her upcoming children’s book The Highly Sensitive Rabbit, helps sensitive kids embrace their empathic gifts as a strength. Dr. Orloff is a psychiatrist, an empath and intuitive healer, and is on the UCLA Psychiatric Clinical Faculty. She synthesizes the pearls of traditional medicine with cutting edge knowledge of intuition, energy, and spirituality and passionately believes in the power of integrating this wisdom for total wellness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqBmJe5KMQI

Dr. Orloff has been called “the godmother of the empath movement.” She specializes in treating empaths and highly sensitive people in her private practice. Dr. Orloff’s work has been featured on The Today Show, CNN, Oprah Magazine, the New York Times and USA Today. She has spoken at the American Psychiatric Association, Fortune Magazine’s Most Powerful Women’s Summit, Google, TEDx U.S. and TEDx Gateway Asia. The New England Journal of Medicine writes, “Dr. Judith Orloff advises physicians on improving their intuitive powers. Her simple but powerful message is ‘Listen to your patients.’”

https://drjudithorloff.com/about-dr-orloff

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https://www.youtube.com/@JudithOrloffMD

Amazon

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2025-04-16
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Stanislav Grof

Tags : 1900-1949 Czech Republic Germany Prague USA Wiesbaden

Category : ArtDocs , philosophyDocs , SpiritualDocs , WriterDocs

Stanislav Grof (born July 1, 1931) is a Czech-born American psychiatrist. Grof is one of the principal developers of transpersonal psychology and research into the use of non-ordinary states of consciousness for purposes of psychological healing, deep self-exploration, and obtaining growth and insights into the human psyche.

Stanislav Grof was born July 1, 1931 in Prague, Czechoslovak Republic.^[1] Grof received his M.D. from Charles University in Prague in 1957 and then completed his Ph.D. in medicine at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in 1965, training as a Freudian psychoanalyst at this time.

Czechoslovakia was the centre of psychedelic research behind the Iron Curtain during the 1950s and 1960s. Grof’s early research in the clinical uses of psychedelic substances was conducted at the Psychiatric Research Institute in Prague, where he was principal investigator of a program that systematically explored the heuristic and therapeutic potential of LSD and other psychedelic substances.^[

In 1967, he received a scholarship from the Foundations Fund for Research in Psychiatry in New Haven, Connecticut, and was invited by Joel Elkes^[3] to be a Clinical and Research Fellow at Henry Phipps Clinic, a part of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, United States. In 1969, he went on to become Chief of Psychiatric Research for the Spring Grove Experiment at the Research Unit of Spring Grove State Hospital (later part of the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center where he worked with Walter Pahnke. In 1969, Grof also became Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University.

In 1973 he was invited to the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, and lived there until 1987 as a Scholar-in-Residence, developing his ideas and conducting month-long workshops.^{[citation needed]} In 1977, Grof was the founding president of the International Transpersonal Association, serving as president for several subsequent decades. He went on to become distinguished adjunct faculty member of the Department of Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies, a position he remained in until 2018.

In May 2020, he launched, with his wife Brigitte Grof, a new training in working with holotropic states of consciousness, the international Grof Legacy Training

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Tess Gerritsen (born Terry Tom; June 12, 1953^[1]) is the pseudonym of Terry Gerritsen,^[2] an American novelist and retired general physician.

Tess Gerritsen is the child of a Chinese immigrant and a Chinese-American seafood chef. While growing up in San Diego, California, Gerritsen often dreamt of writing her own Nancy Drew novels.^[4] Her first name is Terry; she decided to feminize it when she was a writer of romance novels.^[2] Although she longed to be a writer, her family had reservations about the sustainability of a writing career, prompting Gerritsen to choose a career in medicine.^[5] In 1975, Gerritsen graduated from Stanford University with a BA in anthropology, intrigued by the ranges of human behavior.^[6] She went on to study medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.^[5] She received her medical degree in 1979 and started work as a physician in Honolulu, Hawaii.^[7]^[8]

While on maternity leave, she submitted a short story to a statewide fiction contest in the magazine Honolulu. Her story, “On Choosing the Right Crack Seed“, won first prize and she received $500.^[7]^[9] The story focused on a young male reflecting on a difficult relationship with his mother. Gerritsen claimed the story allowed her to deal with her own childhood turmoil, including the repeated suicide attempts of her mother.^[7]

Inspired by the romance novels she enjoyed reading while working as a doctor, Gerritsen’s first novels were romantic thrillers.^[7] After two unpublished “practice novels”, Call After Midnight was bought by publisher Harlequin Intrigue in 1986 and published a year later.^[10] Gerritsen subsequently wrote eight romantic thrillers for Harlequin Intrigue and Harper Paperbacks.

In 1996, Gerritsen wrote Harvest, her first medical thriller.^[10] The plot was inspired by a conversation with a retired homicide detective who had recently traveled in Russia. He told her young orphans were vanishing from Moscow streets, and police believed the kidnapped children were being shipped abroad as organ donors.^[11] Harvest was Gerritsen’s first hardcover novel, and it marked her debut on the New York Times bestseller list at number thirteen.^[12] Following Harvest, Gerritsen wrote three more bestselling medical thrillers: Life Support,^[13] Bloodstream,^[14] and Gravity.

In 2001, Gerritsen’s first crime thriller, The Surgeon, was published and introduced homicide detective Jane Rizzoli. Although a secondary character in The Surgeon, Rizzoli has been a central focus of 13 subsequent novels (see below) pairing her with medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles.^[16] The books inspired the Rizzoli & Isles television series starring Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander.^[17] Gerritsen also made an appearance in the series’ final season as a writer who helps Isles establish herself in the literary field

Although most of her recent books have been in the Rizzoli/Isles series, in 2007 Gerritsen wrote a stand-alone historical thriller titled The Bone Garden. A tale of gruesome murders, the book is set primarily in 1830s Boston and includes a character based on Oliver Wendell Holmes.^[19]^[20]

Gerritsen’s books have been published in 40 countries and have sold 25 million copies.

Film and television

Adrift (1993)
Rizzoli & Isles (2010-2016)
Island Zero (2018)^[21]
Magnificent Beast (2022)^[22]

Gerritsen co-wrote the story and screenplay for Adrift, which aired on CBS as Movie of the Week in 1993 and starred Kate Jackson and Bruce Greenwood

She is also the composer of the musical piece “Incendio” for violin and piano, a waltz that features in the plot of her novel “Playing With Fire”.^[24] The composition has been recorded by violinist Susanne Hou.

Gerritsen’s mother told her traditional Chinese stories, e.g. about Monkey King. Her novel The Silent Girl uses Chinese martial arts and traditional motives in contemporary Boston. One of the victims is a Chinese chef.

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