Wayne Wood Archive — Page 80 of 104

July 25, 2023

The Wild Kingdom guy thought it would be a good idea to bring a python into the hospital. He was right.

It’s cold-blooded, check it and see

By Wayne Wood
June 20, 2023

VUMC Voice Pet Photo Contest deadline is July 10

Medical Center people are invited to enter pictures of their dogs, cats, hamsters, horses, snakes, gerbils, goats, lizards, llamas and possibly some animals that we’ve never had entered before.

Farmers' Market
May 23, 2023

Farmers’ Market on VUMC Plaza Thursday afternoons

By Wayne Wood
May 15, 2023

Polio patients, iron lung respirators, and…hey, is that Pat Boone??!!

Polio was a terrifying disease, once filling wards at VUMC with paralyzed patients in iron lungs. Vaccines have saved us from all that.

By Wayne Wood
May 15, 2023

I was the last person in an iron lung at Vanderbilt University Medical Center

It was in a storage room. It still worked. For some reason, I was allowed to get in it.

By Wayne Wood
March 30, 2023

University of Copenhagen’s Lars Hviid to lecture on acquired immunity to malaria, April 12

By Wayne Wood