1. thecheerfuloncologist
  2. AskaSciBlogger Question for July 19th

AskaSciBlogger Question for July 19th

By mementomori on July 19, 2006.

If you could have practiced science in any time and any place throughout history, which would it be, and why?

Without hesitation I would choose to be sitting on the front steps of a certain hospital in Baltimore that had just opened for business in 1889, waiting for a certain transplanted Canadian to come ambling up toward the front doors. As he approached I would rise and doff my hat to him, saying "Excuse me, Sir? I am a graduate of the University of Iowa medical school and have traveled here to offer myself up for study and hard work, so that I may become the type of physician that you would be proud of. Will you give me a chance at a house officer position here? I will not take no as an answer."

How could this distinguished gentleman refuse such a heartwarming proposal? He wouldn't accuse me of being an (expletive deleted) would he?

Tags
Science Bloggers

More like this

Sick Jewish Veteran Harassed By Evangelicals
The 'godly' singing "The Old Rugged Cross." Or something The last thing most people in the Coalition of the Sane want when they are being treated for a serious illness in the hospital to have the staff try to convert you to another religion. And when you force a sick patient to choose between…
We Get Mail...
[Pushed to the top of the page due to interesting updates...] Ah, the perils of growing traffic! I get e-mail. Usually those are nice questions about sleep disorders, or requests for link exchanges. But today I got a christianist. Oy vey! I hope I never get PZ's traffic - I guess he gets…
Voter Suppression in Missouri
This story should, if you care at all about the rule of law, make your blood boil: I, Galloglas, went to vote today and encountered difficuly. And, it is important to point out that this was not the first time I've run onto problems this year. When I voted in Missouri's Presidential primary in…
Revolutionary medicine
One of the premier and earliest flu bloggers and co-founder of Flu Wiki, DemFromCT is also a doctor. Not a young doctor, either, although somewhat younger than I am (most people seem to be, these days). In our young professional days, the American Medical Association was a real political power.…

Dr. Hildreth, is this the same Dr. Osler who along with Dr. Weber and Dr. Rendu discovered "Hereditary Hemmorhagic Telangeictasia?" Or "Osler, Weber, Rendu Disease" as it is sometimes referred to? Oh, the stories I could tell about that illness.