For Donna, Linda and Kelly When I was an Internal Medicine intern, my very first rotation was in the Coronary Care Unit, aka “the CCU.” Nothing could be more frightening to both the intern and the patient than an acute myocardial infarction the first week in July. It is a well-known fact that hospital mortality… Continue reading NURSE!!
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."