VUMC history
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December 23, 2021
The most popular VUMC Voice stories of 2021
Love stories, an honor walk, a heroic rescue -- and plumbing -
February 7, 2020
The elusive Nobel Prize winner
Stanley Cohen wanted to be left alone to do his research. I wanted to interview him for a radio show. Amazingly, he said yes. -
October 16, 2019
When ABC’s “World News Tonight” was broadcast live from VUMC
A specially built platform outside the hospital allowed anchor Peter Jennings to deliver the news with a VUMC backdrop -
October 12, 2018
The story behind the law that saved thousands of children
Robert Sanders, MD, and his wife Patricia were tireless advocates for a child safety-seat law that saved thousands of children and was a model for the nation. -
November 30, 2017
When VUMC was a movie set
Lauren Hutton! William H. Macy! James Farentino! Medical Center North? -
October 31, 2017
From the circus to the School of Medicine
James Tayloe Gwathmey, M.D., was a circus performer and Vanderbilt doctor who wrote popular books on both anesthesia and circus acrobatics -
September 5, 2017
Hidden Figure
In 1964, with little fanfare, Harold Jordan, MD, became the first African-American resident physician at Vanderbilt. Looking back to that time, he recalls the support of his colleagues and the challenges he faced.