A Year to Remember
In ancient times, the Babylonians made commitments to their gods at the start of each year to return borrowed objects and pay their debts. The Romans made similar promises to the god Janus, for whom the month of January is named. And still today, with each new year,...
In the Future, All Blood Is Red
This year, at medical schools across the country, students will virtually attend a series of lectures on the ethics of medicine, during which they’ll learn words like “paternalism” and “therapeutic alliance,” “egalitarianism” and “stewardship,” and “beneficence” and...
A Cavalcade of COVID, and Clots, and Coagulopathy
Unless you’ve been living on another planet (and in that case, I need more details), your life has likely been turned upside down by the COVID-19 pandemic. Since March, our world has changed in ways that most of us could have never imagined. From working on the...
Connecting Clots and Cancer, and the Complex World of Genomic Diagnostics: Fascinating Must-attend Scientific Workshops
A few years back, Dennis Farina, best known for his roles in “Law and Order” and “Get Shorty” died due to pulmonary embolism in the setting of lung cancer. His death brought media attention to the risk of thrombosis in the setting of malignancy. More than 150 years...