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Book ReviewMedical Revolution in Minnesota: A history of the University of Minnesota Medical School

Book ReviewMedical Revolution in Minnesota: A history of the University of Minnesota Medical School

Atlas of Office Surgery

When I first looked at this book, the variety of procedures was so great that I questioned its usefulness for a general surgeon beginning practice. Consequently, I gave a copy to one of our recent graduates, Timothy A. Bierema, MD, who wrote the following: The Atlas of Office Surgery is a compilation of descriptions of various procedures that can be performed in a surgeon's office. It is edited by Robert Benjamin, MD, clinical associate professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School and the Park-Nicolet Medical Center in Minneapolis. The preface of the book states that it was to be a practical treatise, and, indeed, the authors have accomplished this. The book includes descriptions of head and neck, orthopedic, anal, gynecologic, male genital, thoracic, and other miscellaneous procedures. The drawings in the book by Ellen Hage are excellent and clearly understandable, and the descriptions of the procedures are also very

Medical Revolution in Minnesota: A History of the University of Minnesota Medical School

Formal medical education at the University of Minnesota began a century ago with the opening of a joint allopathic-homeopathic Department of Medicine. Two decades later, when Abraham Flexner visited the campus as part of his inspection of medical schools in North America, he found a thriving institution already possessing "excellent, exceedingly attractive, and well organized" scientific facilities and planning in the near future to build a modern teaching hospital. In his landmark report in 1910 he congratulated Minnesota for being the "first state in the Union that may fairly be considered to have solved the most perplexing problems connected with medical education and practice" (quoted by Wilson, p 129). After a lean period following World War I, the medical school emerged in the 1930s as a world leader in abdominal surgery. Later, its clinical faculty pioneered in the development of cardiac surgery and in human organ transplantation, as well as

Book Reviews

Book Reviews Get access LEONARD G. WILSON. Medical Revolution in Minnesota: A History of the University of Minnesota Medical School. St. Paul, Midewiwin Press, 1989. xi, 612 pp., illus. $55.00. THOMAS P. GARIEPY THOMAS P. GARIEPY Program in the History of Science, Stonehill CollegeNorth Easton, Massachusetts 02357 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 45, Issue 4, October 1990, Pages 657–660, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/45.4.657 Published: 01 October 1990

Medical Revolution in Minnesota: A History of the University of Minnesota Medical School A Model of Its Kind. Volume I: A Centennial History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. Volume II: A Pictorial History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins Thomas Jefferson University: Tradition and Heritage

Medical Revolution in Minnesota: A History of the University of Minnesota Medical School A Model of Its Kind. Volume I: A Centennial History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. Volume II: A Pictorial History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins Thomas Jefferson University: Tradition and Heritage

Ongoing Treatment of a Hmong Widow Who Suffers From Pain and Depression

Dr. Kroll, this month's guest expert , is associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minnesota . He is also psychiatric consultant to the Southeast Asian refugee program at the Community-University Health Care Clinic in Minneapolis.

Aging and cancer.

Article Tools Article Tools OPTIONS & TOOLS Export Citation Track Citation Add To Favorites Rights & Permissions COMPANION ARTICLES No companion articles ARTICLE CITATION DOI: 10.1200/JCO.1988.6.12.1903 Journal of Clinical Oncology - published online before print September 22, 2016 PMID: 3058879 Aging and cancer. B J KennedyxB J KennedySearch for articles by this author Show More University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis 55455. https://doi.org/10.1200/JCO.1988.6.12.1903 First Page PDF © 1988 by American Society of Clinical Oncology

A.V. Waller (1816–1870) and “Vagus” Pressure

Pacing and Clinical ElectrophysiologyVolume 11, Issue 10 p. 1499-1501 A.V. Waller (1816–1870) and “Vagus” Pressure HOWARD B. BURCHELL, Corresponding Author HOWARD B. BURCHELL University of Minnesota Medical School, Cardiovascular Division, Minneapolis, MN, USAAddress for reprints: Howard B. Burchell, M.D., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Department of Medicine. Cardiovascular Division, Box 508 UMHC, 420 Delaware St., SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455.Search for more papers by this author HOWARD B. BURCHELL, Corresponding Author HOWARD B. BURCHELL University of Minnesota Medical School, Cardiovascular Division, Minneapolis, MN, USAAddress for reprints: Howard B. Burchell, M.D., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Department of Medicine. Cardiovascular Division, Box 508 UMHC, 420 Delaware St., SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455.Search for more papers by this author First published: October 1988 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-8159.1988.tb05000.xCitations: 2AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume11, Issue10October 1988Pages 1499-1501 RelatedInformation

The Minnesota Rural Physician Associate Program for medical students.

The Rural Physician Associate Program (RPAP) at the University of Minnesota Medical School is a clinical education experience for third-year students that lasts nine to 12 months. In 1970 the Minnesota legislature required the medical school faculty to find an educational method to redistribute physicians into the medically underserved rural areas of Minnesota or lose state funds for the medical school. After 16 years of the program, all 87 counties in Minnesota have an acceptable ratio of general physicians for the first time in the state's history. RPAP students work directly with and are supervised by general physicians practicing in rural areas; these preceptors have an average age of 40 years, are board-certified, and have 12 years of clinical experience. They give their teaching services and a $2,500 stipend to the student; the state provides $7,000 to the student with no obligation that the student practice in rural Minnesota after training. The preceptors, RPAP staff members, and visiting university faculty members provide 50, 30, and 20 percent, respectively, of a student's grades for the program; the student receives six months of credit for the program. As of 1986, 57 percent of the former RPAP students in practice were practicing in rural communities, with a majority in Minnesota and a majority in towns with populations less than 10,000.

Neurohumoral features of cardiac failure

Department of Medicine, Veterans Administration Medical Center and The University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Effect of early exposure to family medicine on students' attitudes toward the specialty.

In the study reported here, the authors examined the influence of clinical experiences of students on their choice of family medicine as a specialty. Attitudes toward family medicine were investigated among 172 first-year and 174 second-year students at the University of Minnesota Medical School--Minneapolis. Neither early exposure to role models in family medicine nor the order in which specialty clerkships were taken had a significant effect on the students' choice of family medicine as a specialty.

Changes in bombesin (B), calcitonin (C) and serotonin (S) immunoreactive pulmonary neuroendocrine cells (PNEC) in cystic fibrosis (CF) and following prolonged mechanical ventilation (PV) : Dana E. Johnson, Jane D. Wobken and Bonnie G. Landrum. University of Minnesota Medical School, Department of Pediatrics, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Changes in bombesin (B), calcitonin (C) and serotonin (S) immunoreactive pulmonary neuroendocrine cells (PNEC) in cystic fibrosis (CF) and following prolonged mechanical ventilation (PV) : Dana E. Johnson, Jane D. Wobken and Bonnie G. Landrum. University of Minnesota Medical School, Department of Pediatrics, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Calcitonin (C) and calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) block the effects of bombesin (B) on lung mechanics in the guinea pig : Dana E. Johnson, Richard C. Lussky, Laura W. Erickson, Jane D. Wobken, Kerry J. Berg and Catherine Gatto. University of Minnesota Medical School, Department of Pediatrics, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Calcitonin (C) and calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) block the effects of bombesin (B) on lung mechanics in the guinea pig : Dana E. Johnson, Richard C. Lussky, Laura W. Erickson, Jane D. Wobken, Kerry J. Berg and Catherine Gatto. University of Minnesota Medical School, Department of Pediatrics, Minneapolis, Minnesota

CONCLUDING SUMMARY

(Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, and Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.).

Alternative indications for pulsatile gonadotropin-releasing hormone therapy in infertile women : Phansey SA; Toffle R; Curtin J; et al. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Department of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, USA FERTIL. STERIL.; 44/5 (589–594) 1985

Alternative indications for pulsatile gonadotropin-releasing hormone therapy in infertile women : Phansey SA; Toffle R; Curtin J; et al. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Department of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, USA FERTIL. STERIL.; 44/5 (589–594) 1985

Diverse Approaches to New Therapies May Hold Promise in Multiple Sclerosis

WE ARE GROPING in the dark, working at the edges of the problem, admits Gary Birnbaum, MD, associate professor of neurology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis. The problem is multiple sclerosis. It is the most common degenerative inflammatory neurological disease to strike people of working age (15 to 55 years)—an estimated 150 000 in the United States—according to a spokesperson at the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke. Although clinical features were described more than 100 years ago by the 19th century Paris neurologist Jean Martin Charcot, its causes and cure remain elusive. Birnbaum's comment about multiple sclerosis was echoed by many of the physicians and other medical scientists at the American Academy of Neurology meetings in New Orleans. They are all too familiar with the scores of promising therapies that ultimately proved ineffective. What is more, even though there are probably more well-designed clinical trials

A Histopathologic Evaluation of Nevocellular Nevi in Pregnancy

Departments of Pathology, Dermatology, and Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa; and Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Enzyme activity may hold key to cataract prevention

The principal and perhaps only disease of the human lens is the opacification of the lens—a cataract. However, approximately 60% of persons between the ages of 65 and 74 [years] in the United States show some signs of cataract development, and cataracts are the leading cause of blindness in Africa, reported William Rathbun, PhD, associate professor, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, in discussing The Achilles Heel of the Human Lens at the Research to Prevent Blindness seminar in Washington, DC. Cataracts may be unavoidable. Ultraviolet light, present in sunlight and many forms of artificial light—when incident on the lens—produces free radicals and oxidation products such as hydrogen peroxide, that lead to the development of cataracts. An apparent defense mechanism in the young, healthy lens is a tripeptide—glutathione. Work in Rathbun's laboratory has demonstrated that the glutathione content of the lens decreases with age. That concentration has

COMPARISON OF ELEVATED SERUM CREATINE KINASE MB ACTIVITIES POST MARATHON AND POST MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION

1 Hennepin County Medical Center, University of Minnesota Medical School 2 Minneapolis, MN., 55415, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX., 78712

Foreword

Department of Otolaryngology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota [E. R. H.], and Department of Communicative Disorders, Northwestern University School of Speech, Evanston, Illinois [E. D.]