Mikaela Poling:
CLASS OF 2004
Buckhannon - Upshur High SchoolClass of 2004
Buckhannon, WV
Mikaela's Story
Mikaela is from Buckhannon, West Virginia. Mikaela's schools include Buckhannon - Upshur High School. Mikaela later attended West Virginia Wesleyan College (History of modern western military medicine and surgery) .
Mikaela's interests include Science. Music Mikaela likes includes Folk music of Ireland, Classical and Romantic Opera, Big band. Books Mikaela likes include The Merck Manual, Aequanimitas, 1662 Book of Common Prayer. Movies Mikaela likes include James Bond film. TV shows Mikaela likes include I Don't Watch Tv Much.
One of Mikaela's favorite quotes is:"[Regarding the investigation of disease,] we need to start going about this in a logical way. --RJ McCormick
It's important for a patient to go into an operation with confidence. The functions of the heart will be abnormal, if they go in scared to death. --M DeBakey
I have always told my students, residents, and fellows, if you want to really get on top of some topic, you need to know how it got from ...Expand for more
where it was to how it is now. I was always strong on eponyms—like Marfan syndrome, Freeman-Sheldon syndrome, Down syndrome, Tay-Sachs disease and so on. On rounds, the resident or student would present a patient with some particular condition, and I would always ask, so who is so and so for whom the disease was named? Who is Marfan? Who were Freeman and Sheldon? Who was Down? Who were Tay and Sachs? This prompts thought and research into the disease or condition itself to find out who first described it and, therefore, for whom it was named. --VA McKusick
He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all. --W Osler
Damn the torpedoes! ...go ahead! full speed! --D Farragut
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle. --W Osler
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life. --W Osler".
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