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credited Elmer with getting him started in research, but he invited Elmer to Stockholm for the Nobel ceremony. Elmer accepted and went, white tie and tails and all! Next to winning a Nobel oneself, it was perhaps the finest recognition one can receive for a career in research and teaching such as the one Elmer has personified.
Heinz Valtin, M.D.
Alexandria, Va.
Valtin is DMS's Vail and Hampers Professor Emeritus of Physiology and a former chair of physiology.
Another fan of Pfeff
Thank you for making my day
with your story on Dr. Pfefferkorn.
I'd forgotten the Hepatitis
A story until I started reading
the article. Then it all came
flooding back, and I ended up
with a big smile on my face.
I have since shared this article with several colleagues in medicine, as well as with friends who are not in medicine. Please forward my regards to Pfeff.
Ariel Vitali, M.D.
DMS '94
Lubbock, Texas
Complementary efforts
I enjoyed Dana Grossman's Editor's
Note in the Spring issue,
about her start in publishing and
the magazine's transition to producing
award-winning multimedia.
I can relate, since I started
out as a print journalist in the
1960s and ended up launching
the first military broadcasting
website to complement our radio
and television networks. We did
not win any awards, though.
I also was interested to see the article about a study of surgery for spinal stenosis. My father just had that procedure at age 89. He was able to have the operation only because he finally found a doctor who wasn't afraid of performing it due to his age. He had a minimally invasive procedure, and the effects were immediate. He's pain-free in his hip for the first time in about five years (it had been steadily getting worse).
Now he just has to build back his muscles, which were weakened by his lack of desire to move around. I plan to send him the article.
Ann Mulligan
Albany, Ohio
Can DMS take a breather?
I just read in your Fall 2006 issue
an
article about sleep disorders that mentions recycling CPAP machines [see the article about two DMS students who established a sleep medicine program at the local free clinic; CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) devices help people with obstructed breathing to sleep better].
I have a CPAP machine that I recently replaced because it was becoming noisy. Instead of simply throwing it away, I wonder if there's a program that takes and repairs them and then donates them to people who may not be able to afford a
new one. I'd be glad to pay delivery costs if someone could make good use of it.
Bill Prescott
Dunedin, Fla.
We forwarded Prescott's offer to Narath Carlile, one of the medical students who developed the free clinic's sleep medicine program. "Thanks for the message about the offer of a CPAP machine," Carlile responded. "We'd be glad to take it and see if we can rehabilitate it. Please thank him for us!" Carlile also added an update on the program, noting that they have recently established a group called CPAP Advocates—a list of patients who have learned to use CPAP successfully and are willing to advise people more recently diagnosed with sleep apnea.
Mail order
My wife, a current patient of the DHMC
Multiple Sclerosis Clinic, and I, a former
DMS employee who's now retired, both thoroughly
enjoy reading Dartmouth Medicine
(and learn a lot) on our all-too-frequent visits
to DHMC. Sometimes, however, we neglect
to get the current issue and feel deprived.
We'd very much like to be placed on
your mailing list, if you please, so we don't
miss any issues. Thank you.
Carolyn and Robert Hackwell
Hopkinton, N.H.
Fast-forward
I have a subscription to Dartmouth Medicine,
which I enjoy very much.
We go to Florida during the winter, and since the magazine is not forwardable I don't get the Winter issue. From the letters in Spring, it sounds like Winter 2007 contained an outstanding tribute to John Wennberg. Because I am very interested in the subject of health-care policy and overtreatment, I hope you can sendme another copy of that issue—please. Thank you!
Sue Broderick
Hendersonville, N.C.
Le style, c'est le magazine
Please enter a complimentary subscription to
Dartmouth Medicine magazine for me.
I usually pick one up at the hospital, but on recent visits I did not see any. The content, as well as the style and format, make this a very valuable and fascinating read for me. Thanks for your excellent publication.
Robert C. Pantel
Windsor, Vt.
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