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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