Someone had changed the front door to one with windowpanes and added a chain link fence to the yard, but it was otherwise still the same dilapidated, dark, dusty shack with a rusty metal roof that I remembered from 35 […]
Odors common to the profession Read More
No pain, no gain, as the saying goes, and Eric Johnson, PA-C’98, isn’t afraid of a little suffering to feed his obsession. The Ogden, UT, resident is a special kind of runner, shunning paved tracks for the uncertainty of the
Ogden man covers 700 Utah miles on foot Read More
Brooklyn, NY, native Ralph Levy, D.O.’60, had never been to the Midwest before he arrived at DMU, then the Des Moines Still College of Osteopathy and Surgery. After he graduated, he returned east to an internship at Philadelphia’s Metropolitan Hospital
Giving back for getting to achieve a dream Read More
If it hadn’t been for two DMU alumni, some collegiate boxers might have been mad enough to punch somebody. In March, Iowa State University (ISU) was set to host the Midwest regional tournament of the National Collegiate Boxing Association when
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By David P. Lind, CEBS, and Yogesh Shah, M.D., M.P.H.’14 Primum non nocere is a principal precept of bioethics that health care students at Des Moines University and, we hope, worldwide are taught. So why, then, are we not concerned
Confronting the “silent killer” Read More
On Feb. 6, 1951, a poor African American tobacco farmer named Henrietta Lacks entered the ward for colored women at Johns Hopkins Hospital to begin treatment for invasive cervical cancer. While she was unconscious on the operating table, the surgeon
“Illegal, immoral, deplorable” – and so critical to medical advancement Read More
For the first DMU physician assistant alumni selected for Iowa’s state-supported loan repayment program, being able to shed their debt is “the cherry on top” of working in rural Iowa. That’s the view of repayment recipient Russell Dixon, PA-C’11, who
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Commencement is always a special occasion at a university, but 2015 is extra-special for DMU’s physical therapy program: In May it graduated its 25th class, which is also the program’s 10th class of doctors of physical therapy. Here’s the journey
Physical Therapy program celebrates 25 years Read More
This article was written by Laurel Whitis, D.O.’17, M.P.H.; Matthew Mueller, D.O.’17, M.P.H.’21; and Chelsea Thibodeau, D.O.’17. As health care providers in training, we are responsible for learn-ing as much as possible about our future patients – from the fundamentals of
Growing up in a low-income household in Portland, OR, Cindy Lin didn’t see a doctor until she was 16 years old. That and the influence of her parents fueled her drive to work hard, help others and treat all people
Student goes big in service Read More