Camping Days [Poem]

Life: A Poem

A critical care holiday poem.

Autophagy: research topic, painting, poem, dance

E ffective teachers do no simply present information for students to learn by rote for a good grade. Rather, they provide an environment in which students can engage with course material and both learn and interpret it for their own interest and goals. With this in mind, I have spent a considerable amount of time developing an active learning format for my introductory biology course, including...

Avicenna's Medical Didactic Poem: Urjuzehtebbi.

Historical research shows that many physicians experienced in medical sciences are also talented in art, literature and poetry. Avicenna was a sage who was skilled in poetry in addition to philosophy and medicine. He wrote two different types of poetry: those meant to be enjoyed for their literary qualities of novelty and imagination, and his didactic Urjuzeh. Didactic poems are different from ...

Unexplained Fever After a Camping Trip in the American Southwest.

An 8-year-old girl was evaluated for fevers of 39.4°C that developed 10 days after returning from a family camping trip. She complained of diffuse headache, nausea, and occasional emesis. Before her illness, 3 transient erythematous papules resembling insect bites on her abdomen were noted. Sore throat, cough, conjunctivitis, diarrhea, arthralgias, and myalgias were absent. Her symptoms, includ...