by Joannie T. Yeh in Pulse
If you were an Aztec shaman in 65 BC, you might be piercing your tongue and passing a rough cord back and forth through your temporary hole. If you were a UIC student in the year 2006 AD, you might be sitting in Taylor Street Tattoo & Body Piercing with your tongue stretched out in clamps held by Tim Gooding, the shop's piercer.
by Kelly Meehan-Coussee in Pulse
With reports that depleted hospital blood banks house less blood than a hospital demands in a single day, the University of Illinois Medical Center is constantly coming up with new ways to bring in donors. Last week: a blood drive-in movie.
Students donating blood on Wednesday or Thursday of the first week of school were treated to "Bram Stoker's Dracula.
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Dr. George is an Emergency Room physician with the University of Illinois at Chicago's Medical Center.
When did you know you wanted to be an ER physician rather than another type of doctor?
My case is unusual. I still expect to be a baseball player when I grow up.
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