Faculty Bibliography

Grey's Anatomy [Television Program] -- Sedation, pain medication and hospice care can make such a patient comfortable, but shortness of breath can be a particularly difficult symptom to treat, says Dr. Timothy E. Quill, professor of medicine and psychiatry at the Center for Ethics, Humanities, and Palliative Care at the University of Rochester School of Medicine in New York

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

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

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.

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of Representatives refers to mentally disabled people as 'retarded' - a term advocates, relatives and physicians find outdated and offensive

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

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.'

Next on the task force 'research' menu are the elderly and the usefulness of hearing aids; the effect of falls; and coronary heart disease screening and whether or not it is cost effective to intervene

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

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)