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San Quentin Prison.
This Date in UCSF History

This Date in UCSF History: Six Days in San Quentin

[Originally authored by medical student Eric Chow and published in Synapse on November 20, 1998.] After a five-minute walk, I finally reached San Quentin’s main entrance and was now set to enter the prison proper.
November 28, 2023
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This Date in UCSF History: The Fascinating World of Forensic Medicine

October 31, 2021
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[Originally published in Synapse on November 6, 2003.] What comes to your mind when you hear the words “forensic medicine?”...
Science
depression

This Date in UCSF History: Mentioning the Unmentionable

October 25, 2021
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[Originally published on October 25, 2007.] Midway through my first year preceptorship, a particularly difficult patient interview taught me the...
Multiracial group

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

October 10, 2021
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[Originally published in Synapse on October 19, 2006.] What does the term “race” mean? Is it a social construct or...
Social Justice
Tearful woman

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

October 9, 2021
Synapse
[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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history

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

October 3, 2021
Synapse
The culmination of weeks of political farce comes on October 7, when California voters will vote on whether to recall...
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Ambulance zooming by

This Date in UCSF History: Prepayment for Healthcare

September 26, 2021
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Originally published on September 27, 1973. In February, within weeks of the announcement of severe federal cutbacks in grant monies...
Health
socialized

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

September 19, 2021
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Originally published on September 22, 1994. This author, a graduate student who works for the Department of Otolaryngology in the...
Social Justice
history_edits

This Date in UCSF History: Minority Enrollees Climb Dramatically

September 11, 2021
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Originally published on September 14, 1986. In a dramatic reversal of last year’s disappointing showing, the School of Medicine enrolled...
Academic

This Date in UCSF History: Campus Group Organizes for Civil Rights Protection

May 27, 2021
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[Originally published on May 27, 1966.] The Committee for Independent Political Action, a recognized on-campus political organization, has announced plans...
Social Justice
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