Alumni in Print

Topics in Dr. Tabor’s essays include scientific discoveries made during dreams; the sudden disappearance of the entire staff of the emergency room (at what was then Presbyterian Hospital) one spring evening; the outer limits to the human capacity to learn medical vocabulary; the use of DNA to transmit covert messages; medical discoveries made by students and residents; the origins of NIH medical research grants; the historic origins of a Hispanic amulet to prevent disease; an error of medical analysis called “The Bellman’s Fallacy”; and the U.S. project to send an entire hospital to England to help the British in World War II long before Pearl Harbor. The book also contains essays on novel aspects of Shakespeare’s plays and various historical issues.

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