Sometimes I meet the most amazing people. A few weeks ago I had a medical student who was visiting from the University of Vermont. His name was Stanislaus and he spoke perfect English, with a delightful Russian accent. As we got to know one another, he spoke of growing up in a village in Chechnya,… Continue reading Parlez-Vous Espanol?
The great Greek physician and teacher Hippocrates (460 BC-370 BC) described several kinds of cancer, referring to them with the Greek word "carcinos", meaning crab or crayfish. This name comes from the appearance of the cut surface of a solid malignant tumor, with the "veins stretched out on all sides as the animal the crab has its feet, whence it derives its name."