“Upon what instrument are we two spanned, and what musician holds us in his hands?” Rainer Maria Rilke This past week was a very busy yet very interesting time for me. Early in the week, I had a visit from an old medical school classmate who is now one of our nation’s leading researchers in… Continue reading In Pursuit of Perfection
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."