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This Date in UCSF History

This Date in UCSF History: The Housing Crisis

[Originally published in Synapse on Sept. 16, 1996.] Summer is supposed to be relaxing and free from stress. Quite the contrary, I feel like an unpaid, overworked social worker. You ask me why? I have been actively looking for housing for friends and family. It has made my weekends hectic and...

September 19, 2023

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This Date in UCSF History: We Need Affirmative Action

November 8, 2021

[Originally published on November 13, 1997.] Last week the United States Supreme Court ruled that it would not hear a...

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This Date in UCSF History: The Fascinating World of Forensic Medicine

October 31, 2021

[Originally published in Synapse on November 6, 2003.] What comes to your mind when you hear the words “forensic medicine?”...

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This Date in UCSF History: Mentioning the Unmentionable

October 25, 2021

[Originally published on October 25, 2007.] Midway through my first year preceptorship, a particularly difficult patient interview taught me the...

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This Date in UCSF History: Examining Race’s Impact on Medicine

October 10, 2021

[Originally published in Synapse on October 19, 2006.] What does the term “race” mean? Is it a social construct or...

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This Date in UCSF History: Prof Claims Rape Stats Inflated, Gets Pushback

October 9, 2021

[Originally published in Synapse on October 10, 1991.] UC Berkeley Professor Neil Gilbert’s article, “The Phantom Epidemic of Sexual Assault,”...

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This Date in UCSF History: After the Recall, Things Will Get No Better

October 3, 2021

The culmination of weeks of political farce comes on October 7, when California voters will vote on whether to recall...

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This Date in UCSF History: Prepayment for Healthcare

September 26, 2021

Originally published on September 27, 1973. In February, within weeks of the announcement of severe federal cutbacks in grant monies...

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[This Date in UCSF History] Socialized Medicine is Respectable in Norway, the UK

September 19, 2021

Originally published on September 22, 1994. This author, a graduate student who works for the Department of Otolaryngology in the...

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This Date in UCSF History: Minority Enrollees Climb Dramatically

September 11, 2021

Originally published on September 14, 1986. In a dramatic reversal of last year’s disappointing showing, the School of Medicine enrolled...