Rush Medical College’s 2023 AOA inductees. The future is in good hands

Another treasure. Berton Roueche was a medical writer for The New Yorker. His stories often focused on “medical mysteries” and the epidemiological detective work that went into solving them. These stories inspired some the early episodes of the TV series House.

💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔Thoughts and prayers aren’t enough. We can’t allow this to happen again.

I am so grateful to Dr. Mark Siegler, the MacLean Center faculty, and my co-fellows for sharing your knowledge and wisdom with me this past year. You transformed my thinking and definitely made me a better doctor.

Today we opened the Veggie Rx program in an unused space in our office. It will serve 6 primary care practices at Rush, and provide food and other resources to our patients who face food insecurity.

One of the first “modern” physical diagnosis texts for medical students. Published in 1869. It’s a beautiful little book.

30 years ago the Medical Care Group was the forerunner of Rush University Internists and Rush University Hospitalists. I was so fortunate to work with a group of colleagues who chose to dedicate their career to primary care and medical education.

A new treasure. Written by Ernest Irons, who was an intern under James Herrick. Although Herrick is credited with the first report of sickle cell disease, Irons is the one who first looked at the blood smear of the patient, Walter Clement Noel, under a microscope.

Before Osler’s Principles and Practice of Medicine this was the standard internal medicine text. This is a 3rd Edition from 1868. The Flint in the title is Austin Flint of the eponymous murmur.

Looking forward to R2 retreat on Friday. We’re going to have great teaching sessions led by @RushIMchiefs followed by a scavenger hunt. Here is one of the places on the list: