Dead, Right Reverends, and Wrong Reverends of every order. (The NCI director at the time had said the long campaign deserved a "birthday present" of a "pat on the back.") Sporn opened his own commentary with an epigraph from Charles Dickens's Bleak House:ĭead, your majesty. He had sent his first broadside against what he calls "the cancer establishment" in 1996, when he was invited to write an essay for the venerable British journal The Lancet to mark the silver anniversary of the National Cancer Act. Like John Bailar III, the NCI statistician who had, in 1986, famously questioned the government's claims of progress in the war on cancer, Sporn had also challenged the gospel. And if anything, he was more subversive than ever. Mike Sporn, graying, twinkling, was then a month shy of his 71st birthday. Somehow, it was hard to picture this good-natured smirk of a fellow-a man who had owned eight straight Subarus-as being any kind of a revolutionary. The car was his "eighth straight Subaru," he volunteered just after saying hello, the corners of his mouth lifting into an unbroken grin. And when he saw me standing outside the local inn on the morning of our interview, he bounded through the snow from his Subaru Forester to greet me. I had driven up to Hanover, N.H., to speak with him for an article for Fortune magazine. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Honoring Wennberg and supporting future pioneersįrom The Truth in Small Doses by Clifton Leaf.Geisel students provide care for those in need at the Good Neighbor Health Clinic in White River Junction, Vt. In this excerpt from his book The Truth in Small Doses, journalist Clifton Leaf discusses how the research of Geisel professor Michael Sporn changed his view of how best to battle cancer. Our memories are integral to our personal identity, but we cannot take for granted that they will always be with us. It's a skill-one that the Medical School is working to ensure every graduate has. Leadership is not something people are born with, says Dean Chip Souba. In an increasingly informal age, what does it mean to wear a white medical coat? Voices of Geisel: Greetings from Stockholm.Overheard: Robert Foote and Gautham Suresh quotes.
Shorts: Establishing a model of surgical care.Geisel receives an eight-year accreditation from the LCME.
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