Medicine Challenged

Jessie W. Hirst, a Professor Who Challenged Prejudice towards Western Medicine

www.eymj.org Dr. Hirst (1864–1952) (Fig. 1) was a medical missionary who made great contributions to the advancement of medicine in Korea. He served as a missionary for 40 years in Korea, from 1894 to 1934. Along with Dr. Avison (Ph.D.), Professor Jesse Watson Hirst [Korean Name: Huh Si-Tae (許時泰: 1864–1952)] was a leader at Severance Hospital from its establishment in 1904. He served for about ...

Hippocrates' Oath is challenged.

Dimensionally Challenged Gravities

It is a pleasure to dedicate this little travelogue/catalogue of exotic gravity models to John Stachel, whose loyalty to the D=4 Einstein cause is too steadfast to be subverted by reading it. Once unleashed by general relativity, dynamical geometry has become a fertile playground for generalization in many directions beyond Einstein’s D=4 Ricci-flat choice. This trend has intensified with strin...

Characterizing challenged Minnesota ballots

Photocopies of the ballots challenged in the 2008 Minnesota elections, which constitute a public record, were scanned on a high-speed scanner and made available on a public radio website. The PDF files were downloaded, converted to TIF images, and posted on the PERFECT website. Based on a review of relevant image-processing aspects of paper-based election machinery and on additional statistics ...

Melanoma's radioresistant reputation challenged.

Conventional wisdom would have one believe that melanoma is a highly radioresistant tumor, perhaps even “radiation proof.” This reputation developed as a result of a combination of factors. First, early in vitro studies of melanoma radio-biology suggested that melanoma cells displayed enhanced postradiation survival vs comparison cells.[1] Second, clinical use of radiation therapy for melanoma ...