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Shiels' team stumbled on the peculiar practice largely by chance. In 2007, a premed student named Adam Young, then 21, was compiling data during his summer internship at Nationwide. Part of his responsibilities included maintaining a database of patients who had been treated by the hospital's radiology department using Image Guided Foreign Body Removal, a technique that was developed by Shiels during his Army days to help remove foreign objects like shrapnel from soft tissue. Shiels' method was less invasive than surgery, which often requires an incision of 2 to 3 inches and can lead to damage in surrounding...
...stethoscope just yet. This year marked the 102nd Harvard Medical School Annual Second-Year Show, in which nearly half the class of second-year students in the medical and dental schools write, direct, design, and star in an original musical that features impersonations of their professors. According to student/performer Adam R. Donnell, it is “expected” of students to be in the show. In this year’s show, “I Got Curriculum,” the news that the Harvard Medical School has dropped in rank below “some school...
...first move is in Bangkok, site of the world chess championship. Freddie Trumper, the loud American champion (Jonathan J. Carpenter ’07) prepares to face his Russian opponent Anatoly Sergievsky (Adam M. Lathram ’10) amid a politically tense atmosphere. Everyone, it seems, is a secret agent—or could be. When Freddie rashly accuses Anatoly of cheating, the game is suspended for negotiations. Meanwhile, Florence Vassy (Morgan L. Mallory ’10), Freddie’s Hungarian-American second, leaves her underappreciated role by Freddie’s side and instead begins...
...Jean A. Junior, Jesse M. Kaplan, Russell P. Kelley, Christopher B. Lacaria, Nadira Lalji, Alice N. Lee, John D. Lesieutre, Tracy Li, Eric I. Lu, Maxwell S. Mishkin, Charles G. Nathanson, Garrett G.D. Nelson, Won H. Park, Julia L. Renaud, Charles H. Rhodes, Keller C. Rinaudo, Jacob N. Sanders, Adam R. Singerman, Brenton N. Speed, Dana A. Stern, Vivek Viswanathan, Brian M. Weller, Diana C. Wise, Xiaodi Wu, Wenxin Xu, David C. Yang, Norman Y. Yao, and Fan Zhang...
...facility. Once they are under way, Obama could find it politically and legally difficult to stop the controversial proceedings or shift them out of Guantánamo. "All this activity, and an expanding list of trials that cannot possibly conclude before the next President takes office, is irresponsible," says Adam Schiff, a California Democrat and member of both the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees. Saying he has conferred with but does not speak for Obama's transition team, Schiff adds, "Attempts to limit the next President's options at Guantánamo are not likely to succeed." (See pictures inside...