Quote of the Month, January 2025
“Nobody, but nobody, is going to stop breathing on me.” Virginia Apgar, MD First female professor at Columbia University medical school, anesthesiologist, vaccination advocate, and chief researcher at the March of Dimes. She was the inventor of the Apgar scale, helping to save countless newborn lives. From A Mighty Girl webpage: “Apgar published over 60 papers during […]
A Different Road Taken
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” Robert Frost Most of us physicians, including myself, have had a rather linear path to becoming a doctor. College, then straight into medical school, then residency, then practice. Looking back, my own training journey […]