Events

Meeting of the Minds: Having to Discharge Patients Without Treatment

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It has been a bad 24 hours. Yesterday we had to discharge home several of our spine injury patients - without treatment. After sorting through the bits and pieces instrumentation that has been brought over over the years, there simply wasn’t enough of the same parts to allow us to stablize even a single thoracic or lumbar spine.

Meeting of the Minds: The Enormity of the Task at Hand

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Less than 12 hours on the ground and I am rounding at the hospital with the residents. They are excited. With my subspecialization in spinal surgery they have been saving the toughest cases for me in hopes of learning a few tricks while I am in town. While I am thrilled by their enthusiasm I am secretly scared as they start introducing me to the patients and the enormity of the task at hand.

Meeting of the Minds: Arriving In Ethiopia

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I arrived late last night. After almost 2 hours waiting in line for my visa I was greeted by some warm friendly faces. Dr. Abat and his wife Betty. They were some of the first people I came to know when I started making these trips here four years ago. He was a first year resident in neurosurgery then. He is now an attending neurosurgeon at the Black Lion Hospital...

Meeting of the Minds: Advancing Neurosurgery in Ethiopia

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We all enter medicine to make a difference, to help people when they cannot help themselves. It is easy during medical training to lose sight of this. It is not surprising, really. It is not that you stop wanting to help people or do the right thing, it is just that during residency you spend whatever spare energy and time you have focusing on yourself.

Thanks to Everyone Who Helped Make This Year’s “Run The Bridge” Event A Success

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On the first Sunday of each November, Campbell’s Field lights up in the wee hours of the morning in preparation for the nation’s largest 10K race called Run The Bridge. Though the race is run over the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, most of the pre and post-run activities take place at Campbell’s Field. Cooper University Hospital is a naming sponsor of the race which benefits the Larc School for children with disabilities.

Cooper’s River Resuscitators Score a Silver at Philadelphia International Dragon Boat Festival

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Congratulations to Cooper’s River Resuscitators dragon boat team, who won a silver medal at the 2010 Philadelphia International Dragon Boat Festival on October 23, 2010. The 25 team members are all Cooper employees and joined the Dragon Boat league two years ago. In 2009, they won a bronze medal for their division.

Third Annual Resident / Fellow Forum

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Cooper’s Third Annual Resident/Fellow Forum on October 13 drew residents and fellows representing 13 programs. Information tables were provided by the GMEC, Sim Lab, CIRT, Pastoral Care, Life Support, Planetree/Patient Centered Care, HR/EAP, Research Institute, Patient Safety, Documentation and Coding, and Health Information Management.