SE 88, Okay, it is a big deal, especially now with resistance. I was hard on Dr. J. But it is hard to dismiss so many other great accomplishments with his Mohammed Aliesque statement that B will be the greatest in past 75 years etc. It just sort of hit a nerve with the brashness of it all. Well, on second thought Ali was brash but he did back it up didn't he.
My point: hard to pick one. As an example, I read a book on blood banking. So many died in WWII because there was no cellular components in the transfusions. The thought at the time was volume replacement was the key. Really did not see effective blood banking until late 1940's. One example of so many essential and great advancements. CT in the 1970's. MRI machines, cancer treatment, immunization programs (I still remember lining up to get my polio vaccine at the local high school when they first became available), genetics even computers. Hard to dismiss any of them. But you know that.
Ophthalmologist you say. I have some old roots in that field, not as an MD - technical stuff, mainly corneal transplantation. Eleven years working with academic ophthalmologists, training corneal fellows on eye banking, enucs, slit lamp endothelial cell density evals for viability , corneal preservation etc. Know a lot of people in the corneal and external disease area but I left it many years ago but not before dabbling in non-ophthalmic aspects of transplantation. Moved on into hosp. admin as transplantation was a job for young people (terrible hours in the transplant field).
So back to Dr.J: I hear it now: I coulda been somebody. I coulda been a contender.
