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The Case of the Telltale Polyp

1977; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 20; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/pbm.1977.0028

1529-8795

I. N. Dubin,

Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes

Guillaume Osler and I first met in 1933 in front of the cadaver lying on the dissecting table in the anatomy lab of McGiIl University School of Medicine. We were freshmen and had been assigned to the same subject. Call me Bill, he said with characteristic modesty. I replied, Call me anything but 'Dubious Dubin,' a sobriquet I had earned by asking so many stupid questions in the classroom. With a graciousness that bespoke his distinguished lineage, he compromised, I'm happy to meet you, Dubie. This was the beginning of a long and fast friendship. My partner at the dissecting table also became my partner in crime—more accurately, in combating crime. Both of us being consumed by an insatiable curiosity and always challenged when problems seemed insoluble or even unapparent to others, we combined our forces (feeble as mine were) to unravel several crimes that had baffled or even hoodwinked the police and the coroner. Our first case involved the tragic death of the captivating cadaver lying before us.