We heard from a number of readers who particularly enjoyed “Pocket Pearls” (Fall 2020), Karen Blum’s story about the history of The Harriet Lane Handbook — the “bible” of pediatrics for trainees. Amid the response, we learned about important contributions made by the late M. Deborah Gordin-Markel, who was the first pharmacist to help edit the handbook’s formulary. She worked on the 9th and 10th editions of the handbook before her untimely death from cholangiocarcinoma in 1988 at the age of 30.

During the 1986–87 academic year, Gordin-Markel had many meetings with handbook section editors to help write, edit and fact-check the formulary, at a time when pharmacist involvement in clinical teams was becoming essential. She lent frequent evenings and weekends to the tasks of correcting and updating the material, and to adding information about new drugs and antibiotics — yet remained behind the scenes as an uncredited contributor. The online edition of Hopkins Medicine magazine has been updated with this new information and we also thought it important to share it here.

—The Editor