Faculty Bibliography

Mercy [Television Program] -- [...] one of Veronica's patients, a 60-year-old woman dying of metastatic liver cancer, is subjecting herself to further surgery and chemotherapy only to placate her adult children. [...] a patient would never sustain a cardiac arrest soon after the accident unless there was severe bleeding; second, because a fat embolism usually occurs a few days after multiple fractures, not immediately, and seldom from a single gunshot wound

For this year's H1N1 swine flu pandemic, experts are relying mostly on old technology from the 1950s. This involves growing the flu virus in hen eggs, and extracting a dead virus (inactivated) for use in the vaccine. It is ironic to think that the fact that the vaccine is being made by tried and true techniques is the very fact flu experts are using to reassure people. Vaccines are not very profitable, but they are important, and vaccine makers should be applauded rather than subject to knee-jerk criticism

[...] parents may be strong donor candidates, but a perfectly matched sibling would be preferable. --

Pollard wrote a letter, published in the American Thinker in August and well-circulated since, that shows what is being done to help the uninsured rather than what is not being done: 'I operate on at least two illegal immigrants each month who pay me nothing, and the children's hospital at which I operate charges them nothing also.'

'The Cleaner' A&E Aug. 25, 10 p.m. Episode: 'Cinderella' The premise While William Banks (Benjamin Bratt), a former drug addict, watches his daughter Lula rehearse for a ballet recital, he discovers that the top ballerina in the troupe, Callie Bell (Ksenia Solo), is addicted to drugs. Narcotic pain medications are only temporary treatments for flare-ups of herniated discs, says Dr. Michel Dubois, director of research and education at the NYU Langone Medical Center pain program.

HawthoRNe [Television Program] -- Goldstein and Liebeskind agree that if the original symptoms the day before were temporary (suggesting a patient experienced a transient ischemic attack, in which a cutoff of oxygen to part of the brain is only temporary), it may still be legitimate to consider tPA

Royal Pains [Television Program] -- 'Royal Pains' USA Network, July 30 Episode: 'The Honeymoon's Over' The premise Chuck Sutherland, a famous children's book illustrator, has been admitted to Hamptons Heritage, a hospital on Long Island, for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and a cardiac arrhythmia (in this case, atrial fibrillation, in which the collecting chambers of the heart quiver instead of pump)

My Sister's Keeper [Motion Picture] -- Anna becomes her sister's perpetual donor over the next 11 years: donating umbilical cord blood, whole blood, bone marrow (twice), blood stem cells (twice), white blood cells (lymphocytes and granulocytes) and growth hormone -- all without her permission

The proposed health-insurance bill from the House of Representatives refers to mentally disabled people as 'retarded' - a term advocates, relatives and physicians find outdated and offensive

By law, nurses will lose their license if they endanger patient safety or have been convicted of a crime related to their addiction (such as stealing opiates), says Dr. Timothy Fong, program director of UCLA's Addiction Medicine Clinic.