I recently took care of a young infant who was found to have eaten a single-use detergent sac, otherwise known as a laundry pod. The child’s mom called 911 because of vomiting, but by the time the paramedics brought the patient to the emergency department, he was barely conscious, breathing hard and fast, intermittently gasping […]
A Day in the Life
Meet Chris Cho: M.D.-Ph.D. and BCMB Student, Plus Ballet Dancer Extraordinaire
Posted by Alisa Mo | A Day in the LifeOne of my favorite things about Johns Hopkins is that I get to count some pretty extraordinary people as my friends and fellow classmates. One of these folks is Chris Cho, an M.D.-Ph.D. student who is also a first-year graduate student in the Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology (BCMB) Graduate Program. Chris graduated from Yale […]
Apr 3, 2015
Effective Communication: How Do Johns Hopkins Scientists Learn to Speak?
Posted by Shannen Cravens | A Day in the LifeDoes anyone remember being asked if they were left-brained or right-brained? That’s how I recall my friends and I attempting to find our academic niche. We had two choices: We were either good at solving equations or writing essays. That may have seemed true when we were young, but as professionals we now know that […]
Mar 27, 2015
Class of 2015: Four Years a Family
Posted by Arielle Medford | A Day in the Life, Events and HappeningsAn earthquake shook Baltimore our first day of anatomy. Days later, a hurricane moved through. That was our first week of medical school, and Mother Nature welcomed us in perfect allegory. Almost four years later, we’ve arrived at the 2015 Match Day. Friday, more than 26,000 medical students learn where they will be training for the […]
Mar 18, 2015
Pediatric Mental Illness Crisis: Barriers to Pediatric Mental Health Services in Our Current EMS System
Posted by Sylvia Owusu-Ansah | A Day in the LifeImagine you are a pediatrician working in an emergency department when a young female patient who was recently diagnosed as bipolar is brought in by her mother. She is visibly angry upon arrival, and her mother looks tired and distressed. When you enter the room, the young girl begins the interaction with foul language. She […]
Mar 13, 2015
With Disaster Comes Hope
Posted by Xin Liu | A Day in the Life, Perspectives in ResearchOn the afternoon of May 12, 2008, a magnitude-8 earthquake hit Sichuan province, a mountainous region in western China. Official figures stated that 69,197 were confirmed dead, including 68,636 in Sichuan province, and 374,176 injured, with 18,222 listed as missing. The earthquake left about 4.8 million people homeless,though the number could have been as high as […]
Mar 5, 2015