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April 30, 2020

Courage Under Crisis: Military Medicine

It is often said that “necessity is the mother of invention” and in times of crises, accommodations must be made in order to adapt to uncertain situations. In the aftermath of World War I, Weill Cornell Medicine offered an elective course in military medicine in an attempt to prepare its medical students to enter into the military. According to the medical college’s Announcements from 1922 to...

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