Tales of VUMC Past
Polio patients, iron lung respirators, and…hey, is that Pat Boone??!!
By Wayne Wood
Polio was a terrifying disease, once filling wards at VUMC with paralyzed patients in iron lungs. Vaccines have saved us from all that.
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Tales of VUMC Past
I was the last person in an iron lung at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
By Wayne Wood
It was in a storage room. It still worked. For some reason, I was allowed to get in it.
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Tales of VUMC Past
There is a reminder, hiding in plain sight in the architecture of Medical Center North, of how VUMC dealt with a deadly infectious disease almost 100 years ago
By Wayne Wood
An open-air porch for tuberculosis patients was built into the old Vanderbilt Hospital — and it's still visible if you know where to look
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Tales of VUMC Past
An afternoon with the woman who grew up at One Hundred Oaks
By Wayne Wood
It was a retailing wonderland that VUMC transformed into a health care destination. But before all that, it was Carolyn Suschnick's home.
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Tales of VUMC Past
The mystery of “Little Jim”
By Wayne Wood
Who is the serious little boy in the 1932 picture, and why is he dressed like a miniature doctor?
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Tales of VUMC Past
The most popular VUMC Voice stories of 2021
By Wayne Wood
Love stories, an honor walk, a heroic rescue -- and plumbing
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Tales of VUMC Past
The Vanderbilt doctor who told his story of battling AIDS on “60 Minutes”
By Wayne Wood
He wrote a bestseller, was interviewed on "60 Minutes," and his story showed a more hopeful future for people infected with HIV
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Tales of VUMC Past
Harold Jordan, VUMC’s first Black resident, arrived on campus 56 years ago. He looks back on a very different time at the Medical Center.
By Wayne Wood
The pioneering physician recalls the summer of 1964, the support of his colleagues and the challenges he faced
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Tales of VUMC Past
The elusive Nobel Prize winner
By Wayne Wood
Stanley Cohen wanted to be left alone to do his research. I wanted to interview him for a radio show. Amazingly, he said yes.
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