“How much closer to an angel can you get than a little bitty baby struggling for life?” said Dean Driver, 91, who converted a panel truck into VUMC’s first neonatal transport in his driveway.
Part of an occasional series about the people behind the names of VUMC buildings.
Dr. William “Buck” Donald was a Vanderbilt Pediatrics legend. In his long career caring for children, he treated many routine conditions — and some that were not routine. Medical people have a term for the not routine — “zebras.”
Archives of discontinued publications or those that have changed servers or hosts over time are also still available online, sometimes in a hit-or-miss fashion.
It’s cold-blooded, check it and see
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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