My first professor of haematology

iii Preface First and foremost , I want to thank my advisor Professor

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My scientific first-born

Some vignettes from the career of Professor Bezalel Peleg. More than fifty years ago, during the academic year 1957–1958, I assisted Prof. Shmuel Agmon in an undergraduate course on the Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable, in the mathematics department of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Agmon gave the lectures, and I was in charge of the exercises. Every week I would assign exercises ...

My first suture.

council of India defines internship as “a phase of training wherein a graduate is expected to conduct actual practice of medical and health care and acquire skills under supervision so that he/she may become capable of functioning independently” (1). It is meant to serve as a bridge between the theoretical learning of a medical student and the practical skills of a trained physician. It is also...

First basic performance evaluation of the XE-2100 haematology analyser

The newly developed XE-2100 haematology analyser can provide complete blood counts, leukocyte differentials, perform reticulocyte analysis, and obtain quantitative data on nucleated red blood cells (NRBCs). In this study, we evaluated the basic performance of this instrument using routinely obtained blood specimens treated with ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid-2K. Reproducibility, carryover, sta...

My first 50 years of orthopaedic surgery.