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. 2012 Nov;122(11):4293-9.
doi: 10.1172/JCI66867. Epub 2012 Nov 1.

Translating from the rivers of Babylon to the coronary bloodstream

Barry S Coller  1
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Translating from the rivers of Babylon to the coronary bloodstream

Barry S Coller. J Clin Invest. 2012 Nov.
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Figure 1
Figure 1. Life expectancy.
(A) Best-practice life expectancy (that is, the best life expectancy reported by any country) and life expectancy for women in selected countries, 1840–2007. Reproduced with permission from the Lancet (2). (B) Life expectancy at birth for Homo sapiens from 200,000 BCE to the present, separated into prescientific (200,000 BCE until 1840) and scientific (1840 until the present) eras.
Figure 2
Figure 2. The missions of the academic health center.
The old three-legged stool model (A), composed of research, education, and patient care, needs to be updated (B) to emphasize the importance of using the scientific method to improve all of the institution’s missions. In addition, community service and global health are important recent additions that provide opportunities for connecting the institution’s medical mission to the attainment of social justice. Reproduced with permission from Cornell University Press (15).
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