by Meg | Aug 27, 2019 | Cultural Exchange, Library & Books
Luckily, my commute to work averages less than ten minutes, and on a good day, it’s even shorter (but not by much!). So, it’s pretty hard for me to listen to podcasts on my commute. As soon as I get involved and up to speed, I arrive home. However, I...
by Meg | Jul 31, 2019 | Cultural Exchange, Physicians, Portraits
One of our board members recently lent us the book, “Vision: A Biography of Harry Friedenwald” by Alexandra Lee Levin. The Friedenwalds were a prominent Jewish family of physicians here in Baltimore. Our hallways are filled with portraits of...
by Meg | Jun 27, 2019 | Cultural Exchange
I recently found out that Sheppard Pratt has a museum, a library and archives. So I contacted the curator/librarian/archivist and made an appointment to visit. Many years ago, I had volunteered at SP. Nothing psychiatric, but playing tennis with the teenagers who...
by Meg | Jun 13, 2019 | Architecture, Cultural Exchange, History of Maryland Med, Physicians
I had the opportunity to tour Liriodendron, the summer home of Dr. Howard Kelly, one of the Big Four at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Kelly and his wife, whom he had met while studying in Germany, were parents of nine children. Like many of the other early Hopkins physicians,...
by Meg | Jun 10, 2019 | Cultural Exchange, History of Maryland Med, Physicians
Thanks so much to everyone who came to the annual Thomas E. Hunt, Jr, MD History of Maryland Medicine Lecture last week. And a very special thanks to Dr. Paul Rothman, Dean of the Medical Faculty at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and CEO of Johns Hopkins...
by Meg | May 7, 2019 | Cultural Exchange, Ex Libris, Library & Books, Marcia for the Holidays
The 2019 Marcia C. Noyes Award, given by the Medical Library Association, has a special meaning this year, both professionally to our organization and personally to me, your blog author. Not only is it the 100th Anniversary of the death of MLA founder, Sir...
