The other day I was sitting in morning conference and one of my colleagues walks in wearing scrubs. I have no idea why he was wearing scrubs because we are not surgeons, but I assume he had been doing some procedure in the OR. Now this particular man is short in stature, but huge in… Continue reading Men in Scrubs
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."