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Turning Thirty: Numbers
Sometimes a story can be told with a few numbers or spare facts. On these two pages are some numerical insights into the institutions that are the magazine's subject matter. They were drawn from our own pages as well as from back issues of assorted other publications.
Included here are some random facts (and amusing factoids) about Dartmouth medicine—not the magazine, but the institutions that it covers. The primary reason for the selection of these particular tidbits was that they all contain the number "three" (with and without one or more leading/trailing zeroes) in honor of the magazine's three decades.
3
Number of U.S. medical
schools older than DMS
(Penn, Harvard, & Columbia)
1806
Year that DMS graduated its
30th doctor—nine years after
the School's founding
300
Number of
M.D. students in 1987
$600
Sum granted to DMS by the
New Hampshire legislature for
the purchase of equipment
in '03 (1803, that is)
30
Number of surgeons in the
1980 DHMC referral guide
(today there are 90)
1989
Year the Hitchcock Clinic
medical staff first
topped 300
$30
Average daily cost of providing
care to one patient in 1960
1900
Year when the number of
annual surgical procedures at
MHMH reached 300
30
Number of interns in training
at MHMH in 1971
30%
Increase in inpatient beds
(to 450) during the 1960s
1827
Year that DMS first graduated
more than 30 doctors in a year
'03
1903, that is—the year
MHMH acquired its first
x-ray machine, a gift from
four Hanover residents
1977
Year the total number of
Ph.D. students topped 30
30
Number of students just
in the M.D.-Ph.D. program
in 2005
1959
Year MHMH's annual budget
first topped $3 million (it was
over $4 million by 1962)
300
Number of biomedical journal
subscriptions in 1958
3,000
Number of biomedical journal
subscriptions in 1988