Tag: Cedars-Sinai’s History of Medicine Program
Local surgeon Dr. Gordon carves out a role in medical history
Did you know that President James A. Garfield was shot in an assassination attempt in 1881, but he died because germs weren’t understood and doctors with unwashed hands removed the bullet? Or did you know that there was a clandestine medical school in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust? Decoy books were even made so […]