July 15th, 2021 Bad Brad
By Diane Batshaw Eisman, M.D. FAAP Doctor Eisman, is in Family Practice in Aventura, Florida with her partner, Dr. Eugene Eisman, an internist/cardiologist
I, being a duly board-certified curmudgeon, watch the news in pain and sorrow. Galahad the brilliant Siberian Husky who is in charge of everything (and has an MBA, LCSW and Ph.D’s in geophysics and political science) has attempted to ply me with distractions.
Recently, I spoke to him of growing up in Chicago and all the superb medical education around me.
His suggestion to distract me from current events, was to write about Rush Medical College in Chicago one of the first medical schools in Illinois.
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CARLISLE, Pa. (AP) â Dickinson College has long been proud of its Colonial-era history, one framed forever by its standing as the first college to be chartered west of the Susquehanna River, launched to ensure the expanding frontiers of the new American nation would have access to future leaders educated to the highest standards of the day.
But what about the people who â at the time of the collegeâs founding and literally for decades thereafter â didnât fit within the frames of that picture?
Specifically, the men and women of color who, for its first century, werenât invited to attend classes at the Carlisle campus, but did have roles in serving the men who founded it â sometimes as slaves â laboring for the contractors who built it, or as freedmen after the Civil War, faithfully serving in any number of background roles?