During her internal medicine clerkship, Kathy reflected upon the use of eponyms in the medical lexicon after meeting a patient with de Quervain’s thyroiditis, a condition named after the physician pictured above. Her essay, entitled “By Any Other Name,” won the Medicine Science Award for Outstanding Essay from the NYU Department of Internal Medicine. I’m happy to announce that earlier this month, Clinical Correlations, the peer-reviewed NYU Langone online journal of medicine published her piece! Please click here to read Kathy’s essay, “By Any Other Name.”

Until next time,
Silas

Image of  Dr. Fritz de Quervain courtesy of the Library of the Royal College of Physicians.