One thing that happened this week that I didn’t get around to writing about is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jonas Salk, which was October 28. In the annals of medicine, few people have had as immediate a positive effect as Jonas Salk did when he developed the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV).
SUSAN DOUGLAS: Almost 40 years ago, in what became one of the greatest medical scandals ever, doctors were forced to make an unimaginable choice and sign the death warrant of 2,400 patients.