History Makers

A failed attempt at sparking a slave rebellion, John Brown’s 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia showed that violence had become inevitable when it came to resolving the issue of slavery in America. Though rarely remembered, a group of ‘grave robbing’ medical students ensured medical education played its part in one of the most controversial moments in United States history.

Though more than 42,000 medical graduates rode the residency rollercoaster this last week, relatively few have heard the crazy story behind the very first Match Day, in 1952. Involving ‘exploding’ residency offers, two Nobel Prize-winning game theory economists, and a med student movement led by a New Orleans-born ex-carrier fighter pilot, it’s a tale worth knowing.

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It was early April 1945 when the call went out for student volunteers at London’s medical schools. Though World War …

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In late 1968, NASA astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders were preparing to be the first humans to …

Before 1922, most observations of diabetes in medical history didn’t stretch much further than the acknowledgement of a ‘sweet urine’ …

A former bawdy frontier town located in Great Plains cattle country, Miles City, Montana seems an unlikely place for the …

For hundreds of thousands of people around the world, their introduction to ‘hands-on’ American medical care came in the form …