Tag: USA

Texas Medical Center Orchestra

Texas Medical Center Orchestra

80 members of the Texas Medical Center Orchestra, a group of doctors, nurses, medical students, scientists, dentists, therapists and researchers who’ve banded together to pursue their love of music and share it. They often arrive at weekly practices dressed in scrubs, and their orchestra is a much-needed creative outlet. Methodist Hospital Nurse's Week celebration with the Houston Doctor's Symphony in the lobby of Dunn Tower May 11, 2005. (©2005 Richard Carson) Bellaire resident Read more [...]

Pooja Chitgopekar (born 1985) represented India in the international Miss Earth 2007 beauty pageant on 11 November and would later become Miss Earth Air in 2007.[2] Miss Earth Air is Miss Earth's equivalent for first runner-up. She went to one of the top private schools, Diocesan School For Girls in Auckland. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKPK3lSzzq8 She won Miss India Earth, one of the three titles annually given by Femina India in Mumbai; the other two titles went to Puja Gupta Miss Read more [...]
Yasmin Daji

Yasmin Daji

Yasmin Daji (born 1947) is an Indian doctor, model and beauty pageant titleholder. She was crowned Femina Miss India 1966. She represented India at Miss Universe 1966, where she was crowned 3rd Runner Up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK6IMo0LVus Femina Miss India 1966 She was studying medical science in Lady Hardinge Medical College (LHMC), New Delhi when she entered Femina Miss India pageant in 1966. She was crowned the eventual winner. She also Read more [...]
Tyler Lackland

Tyler Lackland

Tyler Lackland, a second-year medical student at Saint Louis University’s School of Medicine, was named Miss Black Illinois USA 2024. Lackland will go on to compete next year in the national Miss Black USA 2024 pageant.  Lackland has competed since she was a child. Empowered by her experience, she clears up any misconceptions about pageantry. “The focus isn't just on physical beauty,” Lackland said. “They're asking me questions like, ‘What do you want to do with your life? Read more [...]
Carl Wickland

Carl Wickland

Carl August Wickland (born Carl August Wicklund, 14 February 1861 – 13 November 1945)[1] was a 20th-century Swedish-American psychiatrist and psychical researcher. Wickland turned away from conventional medical psychology and toward the belief that psychiatric illnesses were the result of influence by spirits of the dead. Wickland came to believe that a large number of his patients had become possessed by what he called "obsessing spirits", Read more [...]
Michael Crichton

Michael Crichton

4/11/02 Michael Crichton '64, HMS '69 speaks on "The Media and Medicine" at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA on Thursday, April 11, 2002. staff photo by Jon Chase/Harvard University News Office John Michael Crichton (/ˈkraɪtən/; October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008) was an American writer and filmmaker. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and over a dozen have been adapted into films. His literary works heavily feature technology and are usually within the science Read more [...]
Ben Schwartz

Ben Schwartz

Ben Schwartz’s path to cartooning happened by way of a long flirtation with a medical career. He entered college planning to fulfil his premed requirements, dropped that after a year (opting for a psychology major), then returned to the sciences just in time to prepare for admission to Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. Through all of his studies, one thing stayed constant: He drew. Schwartz made it all the way through his first year as a resident in Read more [...]
Ian Williams

Ian Williams

Graphic medicine connotes use of comics in medical education and patient care.[1][2] Overview[edit] The phrase graphic medicine was coined by Dr. Ian Williams,[3][4] founder of GraphicMedicine.org, to denote "the intersection between the medium of comics and the discourse of healthcare".[5] Comics offer an engaging, powerful, and accessible method of delivering illness narratives.[6] The academic appraisal of Read more [...]