One of the things I have learned since starting this blog last September is how many doctors enjoy telling their stories, and how many of them do it very well. Dr. Kevin Pho is an internal medicine physician in New Hampshire who started a website where he brings together many voices of medicine—doctors, patients, educators… Continue reading Deep in the Heart of Texas
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."