Surgery is nothing short of a stupendous magic act
An excerpt from The Invention of Surgery: A History of Modern Medicine: From the Renaissance to the Implant Revolution. Johns Hopkins University was unlike anything ever built. Armed with an enormous endowment from a wealthy industrialist, the hospital (and its…
An excerpt from The Invention of Surgery: A History of Modern Medicine: From the Renaissance to the Implant Revolution.
Johns Hopkins University was unlike anything ever built. Armed with an enormous endowment from a wealthy industrialist, the hospital (and its associated medical school) would be patterned after the German laboratory-centric model, and the clinically-based British model. The founder’s dreams of a scientific hospital staffed by full-time professors …
Surgery is nothing short of a stupendous magic act
