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The New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) is pleased to announce that the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, the world’s oldest known surgical document and a treasure of NYAM's Historical Collections, can now be viewed online in a high-resolution and interactive format. The National Library of Medicine (NLM) presents the virtual papyrus on its website as part of its "Turning the Pages" project, which offers interactive access to rare books.
The papyrus dates to around 1600 B.C. and is written in Ancient Egyptian hieratic script. The text contains details of 48 surgical cases dealing with wounds and trauma, including the description, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment for each injury. The interactive version of the papyrus allows viewers to unroll the scroll, read translations of the cases, and use the zoom feature to examine portions of the scroll more closely. Additional commentary and high-resolution scans of the individual leaves of the papyrus are also available on the site.
To unroll and view the scroll, please visit http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/proj/ttp/flash/smith/smith.html
For more information on the papyrus and how it was brought to life online, visit http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/turn_page_egyptian.html.
Posted on May 28, 2010
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The 2012-2013 Duncan Clark Lecture - The Affordable Care Act: An Insider’s View
Featured Speaker: Sherry Glied, PhD, former Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
November 19, 2012 - The NYAM Section on Health Care Delivery welcomes Sherry Glied, PhD, former Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, who will deliver the 2012-2013 Duncan Clark Lecture on "The Affordable Care Act: An Insider's View."
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The New York Academy of Medicine with support from the New York State Heath Foundation released a new report, Federal Health Care Reform in New York State: A Population Health Perspective.
This report identifies opportunities that build on both the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act (ACA) and New York’s ongoing efforts toward improving the health of its 19 million residents.
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