The afternoon was humming along as I made my way from one exam room to the next. Behind Door No. 1 was a kitten with a snotty nose. Behind Door No. 2 was a tiny parrot with a broken leg. And behind Door No. 3 there was Dunkin. Dunkin (not, his owner assured me, named … Continue reading A Border Collie called ‘Dunkin’
Organs
The Pancreas
July 28, 2015 Don’t you wonder how some things ever came to be named? Now the word “pancreas” comes from an anatomist named Ruphos of Ephesus, around 1 or 2 AD. In Greek pancreas means “all flesh”. And it IS a pale pink scrawny L-shaped ribbon of an organ sitting in a crook of small … Continue reading The Pancreas