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No Canadian heroes? Here’s one.
Canada's full-bore pursuit of gold at the Olympics the country is hosting in Vancouver, B.C., has attracted much comment, mostly about how out-of-character overt ambition supposedly is for Canadians....
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All aboard!
Remember, dear reader, I said there would be tangents. Now we are embarking on a trip to Baltimore, Md., and childbirth will barely be mentioned for a while. In his groundbreaking 1982 book, The Social...
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Calvin Trillin’s rule of thumb
The writer-humorist Calvin Trillin has said that his idea of alternative medicine is a doctor who was not trained at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Md. To the extent that Johns Hopkins...
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He wrote the book
In 1899, John Whitridge Williams, whose name lives on in the definitive textbook on pregnancy and childbirth, succeeded Howard Kelly as the head of obstetrics at Johns Hopkins Medicine. Kelly had split...
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