Tag Archives: medicine
Tiny Terrors
Peel back the soft green cover, and you might find menace skulking in a Virginia garden. A neighbor picked up a copperhead by its tail, which turned round to bite him (can you blame it?). Large wolf spiders enjoy nipping … Continue reading
Posted in Animalia, Biomedical
Tagged Centers for Disease Control, ehrlichiosis, Lyme disease, medicine, naturalist, ticks
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Baby’s First Picture
The first picture of a baby is usually in the mother’s arms soon after delivery, and becomes pasted into an album for posterity. My mother missed out on that snapshot since I was born in austere post-war London when a … Continue reading
Posted in Biomedical
Tagged baby, eggs, embryology, fertility, medicine, Patrick Steptoe, science, ultrasound
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Robert Edwards (1925-2013)
A memorial service for Bob Edwards was held last weekend at Bourn Hall, near Cambridge, England. That is the Jacobean mansion house where he founded the world’s first in vitro clinic for fertility treatment (IVF) with Patrick Steptoe in 1980. … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir
Tagged baby, Cambridge, eggs, embryology, fertility, genetics, IVF, Margaret Thatcher, medicine, Nobel Prize, ovary, Robert_Edwards, science, stem-cells
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The Red Gods Call
When I fly out of JFK airport and can look out from a window seat I gaze at the empty marsh below instead of the Manhattan skyline after our wheels lift off runway 4L. I’m thinking about Bob Morris, the … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir
Tagged medicine, naturalist, New York, Robert Morris, surgery
Serendipity or Chance
The King of Serendip (Sri Lanka) sent his three sons away to a foreign country to experience life in the real world. They got into trouble, as boys will, when a merchant accused them of stealing a camel he had … Continue reading
