Byline Backstory No. 11: Something Old, Something New —Antiques and Resuscitations Bond a Future Curator’s Family with the Muse of Anaesthesia

To thank me, an Ursinus College senior, for sending her a Christmas card from Scotland the year before, Ramona, an Ursinus junior, found me late in 1976 in our Pennsylvania college ’s only computer room. I was immediately enchanted. Luckily, she followed me to Baltimore, garnering her postgraduate social work degree the year before I earned my M.D. at Johns Hopkins. Ramona encouraged my interests in traveling (left) and collecting antiques (her Eucaine bottle find,lower right), both of which I use curatorially to this day. We married in 1980 and never questioned my choice of anesthesiology as a medical specialty —particularly after the Muse of Anaesthesia guided my at-home and then in-car resuscitations of our septic newborn Colin (upper right). Today, both Colin and his younger brother Evan are employed in the computer world —fitting work for men whose parents first met in a computer room. (Copyright © the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology.)
Source: Anesthesiology - Category: Anesthesiology Source Type: research