Tales of VUMC Past
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April 4, 2024
How to find older online issues of VUMC publications
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. -
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 -
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. -
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. -
August 19, 2022
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
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 -
May 12, 2022
An afternoon with the woman who grew up at One Hundred Oaks
It was a retailing wonderland that VUMC transformed into a health care destination. But before all that, it was Carolyn Suschnick's home. -
February 9, 2022
The mystery of “Little Jim”
Who is the serious little boy in the 1932 picture, and why is he dressed like a miniature doctor?