In the early 1920s, a bunch of cattle started bleeding to death from eating moldy sweet clover. Karl Link and Harold Campbell, chemists at University of Wisconsin, identified the anticoagulant substance in that clover as a coumarin derivative. Link then worked on making coumarin derivatives for rat poison, finally coming up with the commonly known drug warfarin. So where did the name come from? It stems from WARF, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation + -arin from coumarin.
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In ancient Greece, the asclepion was a healing temple dedicated to Asclepius, the God of Medicine. Asclepius learned the art of surgery from the centaur Chiron and had the ability to raise the dead. The Rod of Asclepius is a roughhewn branch entwined with a single serpent.
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Hi! I am Craig Chen, a third year resident physician in anesthesiology at Stanford Hospitals and Clinics. I went to medical school at the University of California, San Francisco. Prior to medical school, I studied philosophy and biology at Stanford University, along with a minor in creative writing.
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hey craig,
very interesting post! hope third-year is treating you well~
Jason
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