This Date in UCSF History: Cable TV’s Class Divide
[ Originally published in Synapse on October 4, 1973.] Monopoly control and citizen, especially minority, participation are crucial factors in developing guidelines for Cable Television.
This Date in UCSF History: Music is Good Medicine
[Originally published December 12, 2011.] In many hospital rooms, the steady beeping of a cardiac monitor is the most soothing...
This Date in UCSF History: We Need Affirmative Action
[Originally published on November 13, 1997.] Last week the United States Supreme Court ruled that it would not hear a...
This Date in UCSF History: The Fascinating World of Forensic Medicine
[Originally published in Synapse on November 6, 2003.] What comes to your mind when you hear the words “forensic medicine?”...
This Date in UCSF History: Mentioning the Unmentionable
[Originally published on October 25, 2007.] Midway through my first year preceptorship, a particularly difficult patient interview taught me the...
This Date in UCSF History: Examining Race’s Impact on Medicine
[Originally published in Synapse on October 19, 2006.] What does the term “race” mean? Is it a social construct or...
This Date in UCSF History: Prof Claims Rape Stats Inflated, Gets Pushback
[Originally published in Synapse on October 10, 1991.] UC Berkeley Professor Neil Gilbert’s article, “The Phantom Epidemic of Sexual Assault,”...
This Date in UCSF History: After the Recall, Things Will Get No Better
The culmination of weeks of political farce comes on October 7, when California voters will vote on whether to recall...
This Date in UCSF History: Prepayment for Healthcare
Originally published on September 27, 1973. In February, within weeks of the announcement of severe federal cutbacks in grant monies...
[This Date in UCSF History] Socialized Medicine is Respectable in Norway, the UK
Originally published on September 22, 1994. This author, a graduate student who works for the Department of Otolaryngology in the...