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Influential women in the history of medicine

Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

Most notably, it led the way to the development of the x-ray, which allowed internal imagery to be used for diagnosis without the need for open surgery, and radiation therapy for treating cancer. Curie earned a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903, and yet another in Chemistry in 1911, the first and only woman to have been honoured twice.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

And in 2003, I formed Pallium India with several colleagues with the national agenda, because still then the growth was mostly conveyed to Kerala and a couple of metropolitan cities. It’s easier to concentrate on cure, diagnosis, cure. But when I retired from government service, I left Kalakkad in 2002.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

We would drill down on the tenth differential diagnosis of medium vessel vasculitis, and then we would discharge them back out to the streets. Why was I spending all this time figuring out the detailed differential diagnosis of these obscure diseases when we weren’t actually attending to what people really needed?

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A Vitamin K Deficient Bleeding AKA Hemorrhagic disease of the newborn podcast

PEMBlog

Pediatrics 2003 July; 112(1):191-2. These are some of the points in the history that could lead to you making the diagnosis. Imaging is targeted at the differential diagnosis in the site of bleeding. Controversies Concerning Vitamin K and the Newborn. Ross, JA, Davies SM. Vitamin K prophylaxis and childhood cancer.