Faculty Bibliography

[...] the show's connection between ECT and reliving the lightning strike is misleading.

Criminal Minds [Television Program] -- According to the anthrax manual of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for infectious diseases, the incubation time between exposure and the first symptoms is one to six days, with death usually occurring within 24 to 36 hours after the onset of severe symptoms. The FBI would be in charge of the criminal investigation involving anthrax exposure, as the show depicts, with the CDC working with state and local health departments for the local investigation and public health response

In real life, Lawrence J. Henderson (1878-1942) was a pioneer in human physiology, who investigated how the acidity of body fluids is regulated.His career encompassed the disciplines of chemistry, physiology, and biology, as well as philosophy and sociology, and it was his belief that man is in dynamic equilibrium with his environment that made him one of the great thinkers of the 20th century.

In 2005 and 2006, when bird flu fears were making news, doomsayers pointed out the similar structure between the strain that was killing millions of birds and the 1918 virus, without bothering to mention that human pandemics in recent history have always involved H1, H2 and H3 proteins on the surface of the flu virus, not the H5 of that bird flu

Scrubs [Television Program] -- [...] patients who are physicians should be treated like any other patient and would not generally be permitted to self-administer medications

Since this new virus contains some parts of old flu viruses, it appears that most of those who are infected are exhibiting some immunity to it. [...] it's encouraging that we're dealing with a swine flu rather than a bird flu.\n

Fringe [Television Program] -- [...] examination of the child reveals that his intestines lack Lactobacillus acidophilus bacteria, which aid in digestion, and that he has low blood levels of vitamin D -- both of which are attributed to his underground existence. Sinai School of Medicine in New York and an expert in post-traumatic stress disorder, has taken care of a patient who as a child famously survived for months in the sewers of Lvov, Poland, during World War II eating rodents and insects

The dropout rate is less at major medical centers such as New York University's Langone Medical Center where I work, or Mount Sinai Medical Center, because larger physician networks have more leverage when choosing health plans

ER [Television Program] -- 'ER' NBC, Thursday, March 26, 10 p.m.; Episode: 'I Feel Good' The premise At a winter reunion of a summer camp for children who've had open heart surgery, camp veteran Vera befriends a first-time camper, Emily, whose parents prefer that she avoid exertion in the wake of several surgeries and finally a heart transplant for an underdeveloped heart

House [Television Program] -- Can MRI contrast media cause a scleroderma-like condition? -- The reality With a specific mutation of the 46th chromosome that leads to male and female sex chromosomes, it's possible for a person to be born with both a testis and an ovary, says Dr. Eric Vilain, chief of medical genetics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA -- but it's extremely rare