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Listen Up: VUMC offers original podcast series
Oct. 5, 2020—Vanderbilt University Medical Center has launched Vanderbilt Health DNA: Discoveries in Action, an original podcast series exploring the issues and scientific advancements shaping health, medicine and society. The series takes the listener deep into the world of health care through conversations with more than 30 pioneers who are pushing boundaries and setting the stage for the...
A Class Act
Sep. 9, 2019—The glamour of being a neurosurgery resident is a yarn. It’s a world of busy calls, sharpening skills, the occasional moments of doubt, and seemingly more obligations than unlimited coffee could fuel — even if time stretched to 30 hours in a day. Somehow, though, it all gets done for the three third-year neurosurgery residents,...
Handle with Care
Mar. 1, 2019—Neonatologist Stephen Patrick, MD, MPH, cares for one of the unintended consequences of the rampant opioid crisis — babies born with drug withdrawal — and he’s on a quest to reduce that part of his practice. He’d prefer not to treat babies with drug withdrawal, or neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), but it’s part of the...