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Rounding Through the Ages
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William Dixon ’43 Nov. |
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John Leuscher |
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Warfield T. Longcope ’01 |
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Perrin H. Long |
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Mildred Struve |
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John Eager Howard ’28 |
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A. McGehee Harvey ’34 |
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Charles Robert Austrian ’09 |
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Charles Wainwright ’22 |
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Victor McKusick ’46 |
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For all of the changes in medicine, the ritual of
grand rounds at Johns Hopkins has remained close to
its roots. The archival photo above was taken in Hurd
Hall on March 28, 1946. The inset color photo was taken
in the same spot on March 31, 2006. One participant
appears in both of these photos: Victor McKusick ’46.
In the early shot, remarkable for its abundance of
Hopkins greats (see chart), McKusick is in the third
row, several seats from the wall. The renowned geneticist,
now a university professor, opted to take precisely
the same seat in the contemporary photo, right next
to his wife, Anne, ’50.
In the modern photo, cardiologist Steven Schulman is
presenting his patient, Daniel Cohen of Norfolk. Cohen,
who’d suffered a heart attack months earlier,
described his use of alternative therapies and supplements
to fight his heart disease. Schulman followed with
a slide presentation demonstrating the lack of scientific
support for those approaches. The group exchange roughly
mirrored the ritual of 1946.
McKusick notes the dramatic increase in women physicians
for the modern gathering. And one key distinction between
the two events is invisible, he says: In 1946, when
the patient was wheeled from the amphitheater, nearly
everyone lit a cigarette.
Courtesy of the Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives
of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, photograph
by Blakeslee-Lane, photograph previously published
in Knowledge for the World, Edited by Mame Warren,
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2000. |
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