Mary Weaver, med student UTMB Health presenting on the father of anaesthesia. #AOS2024

#AOS2024 we thank Renee for her 15 years of service to the Society!

At the welcome table, a fine commonplace book for any doctor who wants to commune with ‘the saints of humanity!’

Union Station, Kansas City. Ready to start the #AOS2024 annual meeting!

JOIN the PLS before 1 July and you’ll get copies of the journal About Larkin for October ‘23 and April ‘24. AS WELL as next year’s issues (October ‘24 and April ‘25). And we’ll throw in a free download of our special 200-page anniversary compilation. philiplarkin.com/product-catego…

“Even when I’m stretched out in my coffin they may find me tinkering with some poem.” —Charles Simic
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A study presented by Calvin Howard at the 2024 American Academy of Neurology meeting has gone some way to elucidating how patient age and electrode connectivity to the SBC-RSC may impact the cognitive effects of deep brain stimulation among #Parkinsons and #Alzheimers patients
neuronewsinternational.com/study-elucidat…

Happy Wild Koala Day! 🐨 #WildKoalaDay is a day to celebrate wild koalas and protect their habitats.

[📸Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, Brisbane, Australia, 1974, courtesy of NYPhilDigitalArchive]

'Separation' by W. S. Merwin

'What do we say any more
to conjure the salt of our earth?
So much comes and is gone
that should be crystal and kept.'
~Seamus Heaney

“A poet should establish a whole new set of possibilities for the reader and for him- or herself.” —J. H. Prynne

“Life is shapeless, but art, as everybody knows, is shaped.” —Stanley Elkin

Edward Laws, MD will be presenting on 'A contemporary, multi-institutional analysis of transcription factor lineage in pituitary adenomas; comparative study of neuro-imaging, histopathology, and clinical outcomes' on Sunday May 5th at AANS Chicago 2024 AANS #AANS2024

Congrats to Dr. Avi Nath. He is one of the most dedicated and hardworking neuro investigators I've had the pleasure to work with.

“The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles.” —Elizabeth Hardwick

'May with its light behaving
Stirs vessel, eye and limb,
The singular and sad
Are willing to recover,
And to each swan-delighting river
The careless picnics come
In living white and red.'
~WH Auden

“I think that’s the happy fate of biographers, to be haunted.” —Richard Holmes
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The Boston Medical Library Estes Lecture: 'Limbic Capitalism and Mass Addiction Before and After the Digital Age' is starting now. Register and log in to listen: bml.org

This April marked a century since Aby Warburg's profound conversations with philosopher Ernst Cassirer, shedding light on the symbolic importance of the ellipse.

In this blog, Claudia Wedepohl unveils the profound impact of this historic encounter. warburg.sas.ac.uk/blog/one-hundr…

New #podcast ! Jennie speaks with Harvard Professor Don Pfister, curator of the Farlow Reference Library & Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany Harvard University Herbaria. They discuss the new #GlassFlowers exhibit: the Blaschkas at the Microscope and his 50-year tenure. tinyurl.com/HMSCPodcast2024