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Dr. Fountain reflects on lessons learned from life – and from her granny…

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Dr Tamara Fountain, OMIC Chair

Not too long ago, I removed a twig that had been festering for two months deep in the eye socket of a three-year-old boy, impaled there after he ran into a bush while sledding. I reassembled the fragments on the Mayo stand and instructed my scrub nurse to take a picture.

Before she snapped the shot, I placed a ruler next to the twig because without it, without some standard, there was no way to gauge the size of the object (it was four centimeters, by the way). What the picture needed was perspective….

(Go to full article in Journal of Harvard Medical School)

 

 

 

 

 

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