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A 21st-century NGO
A handful of Yale medical students opened a clinic and hospital in a remote corner of Nepal. From 8,000 miles away, via the Internet, they provide support. Here’s how they do it.
The last time Ryan Schwarz, M.D. ’11, M.B.A. ’11, was in Kathmandu, he told a Nepali man that he was traveling to Achham, a district in the western part of the country, on behalf of Nyaya, a nonprofit health organization.“The man looked at me and smiled, and said, ‘Assam is a beautiful part of India’,” Schwarz said. “I told him, ‘No, Achham. Here in Nepal.’...
Doctors who write
School of Medicine alumni discuss how writing helps them reaffirm their belief in medicine.
Making the first cut in a surgical patient shares something with writing the first line of an essay, says surgeon and writer Richard A. Selzer, M.D., HS ’61.“You are making an incision when you sit above a blank page,” says Selzer, the nationally known author of 13 books of essays and short stories, mostly about medicine. “Call it blood and ink,” he says....
The Search for the Cushing Brains
By now the story of Harvey Cushing’s brains is well-known. When the neurosurgeon died in 1939, he left his brain tumor...
Auction benefits the hungry and homeless
The 19th Annual Hunger and Homelessness Auction, sponsored by Yale Health Professional Schools, raised more than...
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