four years for baccalaureate degree, 28–29
Langenbeck training apprentices, 166
Latin important for, 29
on-the-job, 251–52
in Rwanda, 183–85
in specialties, 256, 257–58
in urban hospitals, 149–50
Medicare, 198–209
overview, 199, 206
establishment of, 198, 204–5
fee schedule, 207, 208
hospital integration as result of, 206–7
resource-based relative value scale, 208
size and budget, 208–9, 288
medicine
overview, 22, 93, 142–44, 173–73, 243
in Europe 500 years ago, 56–57
experimental, 70–71, 72–73
high cost in the United States, 209
seizure patient treatment, 3
See also pharmaceuticals
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), 222
Medtronic, 242. See also Bakken, Earl
Meier, Barry, 221–22
Merck cultivates cocaine, 168–69
mercury calx powder, 148–49
metal implants, 231
metal-on-metal (MoM) hip replacement, 218, 221–22
metal plates and screws, 190, 192–93
microbiology, 110–11
microelectrodes, 314–15
Micro-Electro-Mechanical systems (BioMEMs), 331–32, 334, 336
Micrographia (Hooke), 87–88
microscopes and microscopy
dyes discovered for histological staining, 91–93, 126, 128, 311–12
initial fervor and pause because slides lack color, 87–90
Lister, J.J., resolves chromatic aberration problem, 107
Mihaljevic, Tomislav, 244
Mills, Wilbur, 204–5, 206
Moes, Mother Alfred, 254
Mohammad, 18
mold, 130–31
MoM (metal-on-metal) hip replacement, 218, 221–22
Moore, Wendy, 70–71
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