Dr Anita Borges: The doyenne of Pathology education
The strains of music wafted in through the open windows. We were reporting in the Histopathology OPD of the Golden Jubilee Block in Tata Memorial Hospital. “What’s the name of that tune?” she asked. “It is so…
Moving away from Eponyms
The Oxford English Dictionary defines an eponym as “a person after whom a discovery, invention, place, etc., is named or thought to be named”. Medicine is full of diseases and syndromes named after people who described something. You…
The story of Kary Mullis and the invention of PCR
Some stories from science are fascinating. The story of Kary Mullis and his eureka moment which led to the invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is one such story which I love reading about. For people…
