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Tim Fiscus (left), a speech pathologist at Landstul Regional Medical Center, helps R.J. Garrison learn a British accent for one of his roles in the U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern's Noises Off Jan. 21 at the KMC Onstage, Bldg. 3232 on Kleber Kaserne. This latest Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation's production starts 7:30 p.m. Feb. 26 and runs until March 13 at the theater. Times are 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 28. For tickets, call 483-6626 or 0631-411-6626 or e-mail kmconstage@eur.army.mil. Photo by Christine June, USAG Kaiserslautern.
Title : J.J. Taubenhous- Plant Pathologist & Physiologist
Creator (Photographer) : Unknown
Publisher : Graphic Services
Place of Publication : College Station, Texas
Year (Coverage) : 1951
Document Type : Image
Format : Photographic negative
Dimensions : 4 x 5 inches
Digitization Date : October2009
Description : Unknown
Note : Brazos County, Texas
Collection : Texas A&M University Archives
Resource Identifier : Graphic Services Photos, Box 32, File 32-200
Institution : Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
Repository : Cushing Memorial Library and Archives
Contact Information : Email: cushing-library@tamu.edu Phone: 979-845-1951
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The Wayne State Pathologists’ Assistant program, part of the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, recently invited Kubtec Medical Imaging to lecture and train our students on their most recent imaging technology.
Kubtec is a pioneer in 3D breast specimen tomosynthesis for breast cancer treatment, 2D digital x-ray imaging, and augmented intelligence and voice control systems used in the Pathology Laboratory.
Students were able to use our cadaver anatomy organs to look for evidence of pathology and differentiate between healthy and pathologic dissemination in tissue. This was a great hands-on opportunity for students that resulted in a certificate in this state-of-the art technology.
The Wayne State Pathologists’ Assistant program, part of the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, recently invited Kubtec Medical Imaging to lecture and train our students on their most recent imaging technology.
Kubtec is a pioneer in 3D breast specimen tomosynthesis for breast cancer treatment, 2D digital x-ray imaging, and augmented intelligence and voice control systems used in the Pathology Laboratory.
Students were able to use our cadaver anatomy organs to look for evidence of pathology and differentiate between healthy and pathologic dissemination in tissue. This was a great hands-on opportunity for students that resulted in a certificate in this state-of-the art technology.
The Wayne State Pathologists’ Assistant program, part of the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, recently invited Kubtec Medical Imaging to lecture and train our students on their most recent imaging technology.
Kubtec is a pioneer in 3D breast specimen tomosynthesis for breast cancer treatment, 2D digital x-ray imaging, and augmented intelligence and voice control systems used in the Pathology Laboratory.
Students were able to use our cadaver anatomy organs to look for evidence of pathology and differentiate between healthy and pathologic dissemination in tissue. This was a great hands-on opportunity for students that resulted in a certificate in this state-of-the art technology.
The Wayne State Pathologists’ Assistant program, part of the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, recently invited Kubtec Medical Imaging to lecture and train our students on their most recent imaging technology.
Kubtec is a pioneer in 3D breast specimen tomosynthesis for breast cancer treatment, 2D digital x-ray imaging, and augmented intelligence and voice control systems used in the Pathology Laboratory.
Students were able to use our cadaver anatomy organs to look for evidence of pathology and differentiate between healthy and pathologic dissemination in tissue. This was a great hands-on opportunity for students that resulted in a certificate in this state-of-the art technology.
The Wayne State Pathologists’ Assistant program, part of the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, recently invited Kubtec Medical Imaging to lecture and train our students on their most recent imaging technology.
Kubtec is a pioneer in 3D breast specimen tomosynthesis for breast cancer treatment, 2D digital x-ray imaging, and augmented intelligence and voice control systems used in the Pathology Laboratory.
Students were able to use our cadaver anatomy organs to look for evidence of pathology and differentiate between healthy and pathologic dissemination in tissue. This was a great hands-on opportunity for students that resulted in a certificate in this state-of-the art technology.
IRRI plant pathologist Hei Leung discusses rice pathology with Dr. Mew, who recruited him in 1986.
IRRI photo (ARIEL JAVELLANA)
Rice Today Vol.3 No.2 page 20 The tao Of Tom .
Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).
"Dr. Myrtelle May Canavan, pathologist with the Massachusetts Department of Mental Diseases and a member of the staff of the Boston Psychopathic Hospital, displayed enlarged photographs of fifty brains of criminals and feeble-minded individuals at the exhibition attached to the meeting of the Second International Congress in 1921... This specimen, no. 576, shows the brain of a Canadian alcoholic vagrant whose mother died insane. Dr. Canavan and Louise Eisenhardt published this series of photographs as The brains of fifty insane criminals : shapes and patterns, in 1942." (Source: collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/6229)
The Postcard
A Frith's Series postcard bearing an image that is a glossy real photograph. The card was posted in Leatherhead, Surrey using a 2½d. stamp on Saturday the 20th. September 1952. It was sent to:
Miss W. Eadey,
6, Suffolk Square,
Queen's Road,
Sudbury,
Suffolk.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Am having a nice quiet
time near here.
Not much fear of sunburn.
Hope you feel the better
for your holiday.
Have just sent a card to
Mrs. Turner.
Hope your Mum and Dad
are well. Give them my
love.
Home shortly.
All the best,
Florrie."
‘Cutting up 23,000 Dead Bodies is not Normal’
So what else happened on the day that Florrie posted the card?
Well, the 20th. September 1952 marked the birth of Richard Shepherd. Richard is an English retired forensic pathologist known for performing numerous high-profile autopsies.
He was involved in several investigations such as the deaths of Princess Diana and Stephen Lawrence, as well as victims of 9/11 and 7/7.
Richard Lea of The Guardian wrote the following article about Richard in September 2018:
"The Forensic Pathologist who got PTSD:
Cutting up 23,000 Dead Bodies is not Normal.
Richard Shepherd’s career saw him work on some of the most high-profile cases of the past 30 years. But it came at a terrible personal cost, he says.
When Richard Shepherd was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder in 2016, the mental health nurse told him he was really worried:
“Most people say they’re going
to commit suicide, but you actually
know what to do.”
Shepherd’s career as one of the UK’s most distinguished forensic pathologists saw him involved in disasters from the Hungerford shootings to the Bali bombings, and in high-profile cases from Harold Shipman to Stephen Lawrence.
His daily life was made up of blood-spattered corpses and formalin-soaked dissections, anguished relatives and scornful barristers.
But it wasn’t a particular incident that left him immobilised by dread, struggling with sleep and plagued by panic attacks. Instead, it was the gradual accumulation of stress from 30 years confronting violence and the grave, the steady buildup of emotional damage from putting 23,000 dead bodies under the knife.
Shepherd says:
“You don’t notice it because you think you’re
good enough to do it without giving in. But,
actually, it’s like little fish – nibble, nibble nibble –
such tiny pieces go that you don’t notice the
individual bites. And yet, when you look back,
you realise it is having an effect.”
Shepherd continues:
"When you arrive on the scene of a violent crime
you have to switch off from the fact that something
terrible has happened that will utterly change the
lives of the people involved and those around them.
The ripples on the pond are huge, but I have to shut
that off and look at where are the stab wounds,
where are the splashes of blood – purely scientific,
medical things.
When you come out of it, you can say, ‘God, that’s
just awful,’ and you do. But at that moment emotions
have just got to go.”
Shepherd charts the rising cost of this battle for detachment in a memoir, Unnatural Causes, that puts the reader at his elbow as he wields the scalpel.
Beneath the unresisting skin, he reveals an intricate and beautiful mechanism – the gall bladder the green of jungle foliage, the brain the silver-grey of darting fish, the liver the sharp red-brown of a freshly ploughed field – in which the expert can read the marks of innocence or guilt.
From the eerie quiet of Hungerford High Street after the murder of 16 people to the trail of blood leading up to the bedroom of an anonymous terraced house, Shepherd conjures up the uncanny traces of sudden death, the grisly remnants he tried to put out of mind for decades.
This strategy of repression has deep roots. Shepherd’s mother succumbed to the heart condition that had dogged her for years in 1962, when he was only nine.
As well as doing all the shopping and cooking, Shepherd says his father unlocked stores of kindness and affection that were often untapped in men of his generation.
But when a friend brought a copy of Simpson’s Forensic Medicine into school, Shepherd found himself fascinated by the gallery of stranglings, knifings, shootings and electrocutions the textbook contained.
Between those tatty red covers, the worst that could happen – the terrible thing that had, in fact, already happened – was laid out, anatomised and dissected. The tragedy that had changed Shepherd’s own life could be viewed through the dispassionate eyes of the great Simpson, could be analysed, understood and, perhaps, contained. There he found an enduring passion, and an approach that would guide him through his career.
It was a stance that served him well early on, Shepherd says:
"... because I could detach from the things
other people found harder – going to
medical school, doing the anatomy
dissections. It actually gave me a benefit.”
Facing challenges such as these, the moments that can determine the future course of your life, is like riding in the Grand National, he continues, and approaching Becher’s Brook:
“It’s big and it’s awful and you’re hammering
towards it and you know you can’t stop. When
you go over it, you look back and go: ‘That
wasn’t too bad.’”
After qualifying as a doctor in 1977 and conducting his first postmortem three years later, it was all too easy to think the psychological load that made these obstacles so daunting had been left behind:
“All the emotions involved in postmortems
are gone because I’ve done the first one.”
He shakes his head:
“Wrong.”
While he prided himself on his ability to switch between mortuary and home, from objective investigator to loving husband and father, his marriage was beginning to show signs of strain, eventually collapsing in 2007.
Although his wife would ask him to “show some emotion”, he says:
“I hadn’t realised that it was so tightly screwed
down. I was blocking the emotion that was bad,
but I was also blocking the emotion that was
good.”
Cocooned in the embrace of his professional detachment, Shepherd advanced from one case to another, first under the wing of the flamboyant Iain West in Guy’s hospital at London Bridge, and then in his own department at St George’s Tooting.
Alongside the large-scale horror of disasters such as the Clapham rail crash in 1988 and the sinking of the Marchioness the following year, a series of deaths in custody saw Shepherd pushing for police officers to receive proper training in methods of restraint, while a string of home-grown experiments with the Sunday roast made him something of a specialist in the more intimate tragedy of knife crime.
Shepherd says:
"When a body is laid out on the mortuary slab,
it is often difficult to tell whether an individual
death will have a wider impact. Take the example
of Stephen Lawrence: I hate to say this but,
pathologically, it was simple.
As with many stab wounds, if it had been a
millimetre one way or the other, he could so
easily just have ended up in hospital for a couple
of days. But he didn’t. What made it complicated
was the police investigation – or the lack of it.”
The cases that turn out to be important are the ones where relatives refuse to take no for an answer, the ones that “show the glitches in society”. Shepherd says:
“Society is made up of tectonic plates.
Every now and then they have to move
to keep society functioning, to take the
pressures out of it.”
One of the shifts he has witnessed first-hand is the decline of respect for authority figures. Just as cases such as Stephen Lawrence have reduced our confidence in the police, our trust in doctors has been eroded by the revelation that a GP such as Harold Shipman could kill more than 200 of his patients.
It’s quite right that medical professionals should be challenged, Shepherd says, but:
"... when you’re omnipotent and you think
you’re omnipotent and everyone else thinks
you’re omnipotent, life is a hell of a lot easier”.
As doctors have gradually lost their veneer of perfection, appearances in court have become more of a trial, even for experienced forensic pathologists. Shepherd says:
“We do all this incredible work, put together
these reports, then we stand up in court and
some barrister has a go at you and says:
‘You’re talking rubbish.’”
When you have given your heart and soul to
a case and someone goes on the attack, that
can be very painful”.
It is hard enough to imagine this robust, energetic figure wilting under a barrister’s cross-examination, let alone being pursued to the brink of suicide by images of decaying corpses.
Two years on from his diagnosis of PTSD, after both counselling and medication, Shepherd’s enthusiasm for the mysteries of the human body has returned, his love of the discipline he has made his life restored.
He says:
“I’ve been very lucky, but there is this sting
in the tail, it’s not been absolutely plain sailing.
I am human, after all – cutting up 23,000 dead
bodies is not a normal thing to do.
How can you do this? You have to have a
fundamental belief that, in the end, you are
doing some good.”
As a qualified, professional man who thought he was able to cope with anything that life could throw at him, Shepherd says it was important to declare he had reached a point of crisis, that:
"... this did happen and it was bloody
awful but, with treatment, I’m out the
other side”.
For anyone with similar concerns, his advice is to:
"Get help, get treatment and you
will go back to a normal life”.
Richard remarried in 2008 and, after retiring from the Home Office’s list of forensic pathologists in 2017, he continues to take on cases referred to him by teams for the defence.
His experience of PTSD was important, he says, but it is not the defining issue of his life. And that upbeat assessment owes nothing to the habits of avoidance and repression that stretch back almost 60 years:
“Having gone through that, it has cracked
open the carapace. It’s out and I’ve learned,
I hope, how to deal with it.”
Unnatural Causes, by Dr. Richard Shepherd, is published by Michael Joseph."
-- 23,000 Dead Bodies
Dr. Shepherd had a busy career - assuming an average length of 5' 7" (1.7 metres), if 23,000 bodies were laid end to end they would form a line over 24.3 miles (39.1 kilometres) long.
That's an awful lot of bodies!
Final thought from Ian Dury and the Blockheads:
"There ain’t half been
some clever bastards ..."
The Wayne State Pathologists’ Assistant program, part of the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, recently invited Kubtec Medical Imaging to lecture and train our students on their most recent imaging technology.
Kubtec is a pioneer in 3D breast specimen tomosynthesis for breast cancer treatment, 2D digital x-ray imaging, and augmented intelligence and voice control systems used in the Pathology Laboratory.
Students were able to use our cadaver anatomy organs to look for evidence of pathology and differentiate between healthy and pathologic dissemination in tissue. This was a great hands-on opportunity for students that resulted in a certificate in this state-of-the art technology.