Leading the Way book review

Leading the Way: A History of Johns Hopkins Medicine by Neil A. Grauer (Author). The first complete history of Hopkins Medicine in additional than twenty years, Main the Way not only recounts the distinctive achievements of Hopkins physicians, researchers, lecturers, and college students since 1889 however chronicles the extraordinary expansion and accomplishments of Hopkins Medication over the past two decades.

Inside the last twenty years, dozens of multidisciplinary research institutes and facilities have been created to broaden the frontiers of analysis in such wide-ranging fields as genetic medicine, biomedicine, cell engineering, cardiovascular care, ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease), and affected person safety. As well as, a totally new medical school curriculum was formulated; four hospitals-two in Maryland, one in Washington, D.C., and one in Florida-joined the Hopkins Medication household; and Johns Hopkins Medication International was based, expanding Hopkins’ world affect exponentially.

Hopkins Drugs have endured and overcome important challenges and crises whereas nonetheless sustaining its status as the most effective-identified well being care institution on this planet-with the Johns Hopkins Hospital alone been named the nation’s greatest by U.S. News & World Report for an incredible twenty-one consecutive years. Hopkins Medication has been the subject of an award-profitable tv programs and best-selling books, and its faculty continues to garner recognition for excellent achievements, including MacArthur Basis "genius" awards, National Medals of Science, Presidential Medals of Freedom, and Nobel Prizes.

Lavishly illustrated with more than 4 hundred photographs, mostly in shade, Main the Way supplies all those interested in the story of Johns Hopkins Medication-even simply the advances in medicine itself over the past twenty years-a full of life and riveting account of how Hopkins remains within the forefront of medical education, research, and patient care.

Full disclosure, I work at Johns Hopkins Medication with the writer, Neil Grauer. That said, I really like the book. You do not have to be a Hopkins insider to benefit from the many years of innovation and discovery that this ebook covers. Both my mom and my boyfriend have gotten hold of it and I have had to hunt them down to get it back! It is an awesome story if you wish to study medical historical past or if you're occupied with trivia and enjoyable facts. 

Leading the Way: A History of Johns Hopkins Medicine 

 Neil A. Grauer (Author)

416 pages

 The Johns Hopkins University Press; 1 edition (March 13, 2012)

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