The New England Journal of Medicine
e-mail icon  FREE NEJM E-TOC    HOME   |   SUBSCRIBE   |   CURRENT ISSUE   |   PAST ISSUES   |   COLLECTIONS   |    Advanced Search
Sign in | Get NEJM's E-Mail Table of Contents — Free | Subscribe
 
Editorial
PreviousPrevious
Volume 331:47 July 7, 1994 Number 1
NextNext

A New Series on Molecular Medicine for Clinicians

Since this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

 Sign up for free e-toc
 

This Article
-Full Text
-Purchase this article

Tools and Services
-Add to Personal Archive
-Add to Citation Manager
-Notify a Friend
-E-mail When Cited

More Information
-PubMed Citation
When I was a first-year medical student at New York University in 1950, neither the biochemistry curriculum nor the 650-page textbook we used mentioned DNA or genes. For the entire year, I studied carbohydrates, fats, and proteins; the composition of milk and urine; and energy metabolism. Molecular biology as we know it today was only a dream. In my third year, on the wards of Bellevue Hospital, clinical medicine was just as primitive as biochemistry. I inserted subcutaneous stainless-steel Southey's tubes to drain fluid from the legs of patients with cirrhosis; collected urine from one patient to recover penicillin for . . . [Full Text of this Article]


This article has been cited by other articles:


HOME  |  SUBSCRIBE  |  SEARCH  |  CURRENT ISSUE  |  PAST ISSUES  |  COLLECTIONS  |  PRIVACY  |  TERMS OF USE  |  HELP  |  beta.nejm.org

Comments and questions? Please contact us.

The New England Journal of Medicine is owned, published, and copyrighted © 2009 Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved.