"Recalling the Apgar Score's Namesake"

 

It's on WSJ.com. 

 

You could also send
your search engine looking for results for "Virginia Apgar" and
gather up a few more pieces on her life, her medical career, and a stamp.

 

I found the article
great for many reasons. It framed the sexism that existed once in the medical
community here in the United
States. It reflected how the medical
community, at one time, had a few priorities out of line. Most of all it showed
how innovation, the kind that can save lives, can happen in the
smallest time frame. 

 

People tend to think
the greatest ideas came from scientists or other researchers putting in long
frustrating hours in dark cramped development centers. Or maybe they come from
a garage or built in the basement by some tinkerer who has devoted years to
building a better toilet paper dispenser. Some world changing ideas do come
from these places. Others, just sort of show up in a second of opportunity.
Those are the stories I appreciate.