Re: Old-timer (was - RE: Savonarola)
From: Joanne Bulley (islesannie@yahoo.com)
Wed Mar 28 19:45:51 2001
I realized I was heading into being an "old-timer" back in '92 - when at
the young age of 37 my new partner was the second Ob for a vaginal twins
delivery with the second being breech and I delivered it by podalic
extraction and she said she had never even SEEN a breech vaginal
delivery!
I am now the "oldest" gyn in the community at the not so old age of 46!
Joanne
At Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Braun, R. Daniel wrote:
>
>Heshup there chile. You ar e hardly a baby. Only 3 years to retirement and
>the market is down and my ulcer is up.
>
>Dan (The ole timer) {;<)
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Griffiths Malcolm (RC9) Luton & Dunstable Hospital TR[mailto:Malcolm.Griffiths@ldh-tr.anglox.nhs.uk]
>Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 11:32 AM
>To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L
>Subject: Old-timer (was - RE: Savonarola)
>
>I have now been inundated with replies (well two actually).
>
>I have to admit a degree of embarrassment - I think now looking back that I
>was the "old-timer" who asked the question last time too! Now I know I'm
>incapable of absorbing any more information!
>
>This "old-timer" thing wranckles a bit. Not that long ago I was the youngest
>of six consultants in our unit. Last year I was on the committee that
>appointed a new colleague. Late last year I became clinical director.
>Yesterday I appointed a further new colleague.
>
>I think I am an "old-timer". I still have 18 years to retirement though!
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeffrey W. Clemens [mailto:clemens@duq.edu]
>Sent: 28 March 2001 16:59
>To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L
>Subject: Re: Savonarola
>
>Listers,
>
> This has actually come up before on the list, way back in the early
>days, but I can't remember the context. Any of the old-timers remember why
>this came up beofre/Savonarola was a cleric/priest who rose to power in a
>renaissance era Italian city-state (Florence) and lead the burning of
>"religiously objectionable" materials- i.e., the Bonfires of the Vanities!
>
>Acquired from the MSN's Encarta
>
>Savonarola, Girolamo (1452-98), Italian preacher and reformer, whose zealous
>attempt to uproot corruption ended in martyrdom.
>Savonarola was born on September 21, 1452, of a noble family in Ferrara. In
>1474 he joined the Dominicans in Bologna. He made his first appearance as a
>preacher in 1482 in the priory of San Marco, the Dominican house in
>Florence. His preaching centered increasingly on the sinfulness of the time,
>and he openly attacked the corrupt and aristocratic adherents of the Medici
>family.
><snip>
>.In 1498 he was declared guilty of heresy and seditious teaching and
>sentenced to death. The trial record was sent to Rome, where the sentence
>was confirmed. Savonarola, with two members of his order, was given up to
>the secular power. On May 23, 1498, after he had administered the last
>communion to his two companions and himself, the three were hanged and their
>bodies burned.
>
>> I know I'm probably missing out just because I don't practice in the USA
>(or
>> one of its states or commonwealths - we could let you in our commonwealth
>if
>> you wanted - it's bigger than any of your!), but who is Savonarola?
>>
>--
>Jeffrey W. Clemens, Ph.D.
>Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
>Duquesne University
>Pittsburgh, PA 15282
>412-396-4597
>fax-5907
>http://www.home.cc.duq.edu/~clemens/
>
--
Joanne Bulley, MD, FACOG
Keene, NH, USA
