College of Physicians of Philadelphia

But what's the alternative? That's partly why they're so disliked.

When interacting with a technology that hasn't changed much, one that you can recognize, you can really put yourself in the place of somebody who lived in a very different context than you, says Lisa Geiger, curator at the Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

It's a touchstone that can be very illustrative of the human experience.

For ages, the human experience has included bedpans.

It was a celebratory send-off in Center City today for a group of doctors visiting from Scotland.

The College of Physicians of Philadelphia hosted a delegation of doctors, surgeons, and leaders from Edinburgh.

Representatives from the University of Edinburgh Medical School received an honorary plaque commemorating the shared history of those institutions.

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what's taught in the schools is up to parents and local officials, not the federal government.

Addressing the Philadelphia College of Physicians, he said American medicine, with federal help, has made faster progress against AIDS than it did against polio or hepatitis.

Our battle against AIDS has been like an emergency room operation.

We've thrown everything we have into it.

So I used to go there in high school and just like sort of, uh, nerd out in the, uh, in their library and looking at their collections, and that really pushed my passion forward.

And the College of Physicians is in Philadelphia, which is a historical organization, and so I really sort of cut my teeth on some of these old early museums.

But I was always thinking to myself, "You know, I would love, as I put together a collection of increasing what I hope is im- importance, that I would have a, a space." So I went to undergrad and med school and residency at Penn, and then I went to upstate New York for seven years afterwards for my first job, and I started thinking while I was up there, "Wow, I really have to display my stuff right, and I'd love to have a museum." So when we came back down to York, I decided, "Hey, let's find a, a property where ultimately I can build a mini museum on it," which I've done, and I started the, the website, and it's just been, it's just been great because honestly, my-- one of my main drivers in doing all this is to educate people.

And I have a lot of people tune into my website, medicalantiques.com, and they tune in, they ask questions, they say, "Hey, this was my great grandfather's," and, "What can you tell me about it?" So just educating the public about my passion has ignited a passion in a lot of other people.