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Recent health-related news story documents how hospitals capitalize on being the "first" to carry out novel procedures. However, patients must deal with the limelight.
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J. Rosser Matthews has a Ph.D. in the history of science and medicine and has taught at a number of colleges and universities in the United States--including North Carolina State University, Duke University, the University of Oklahoma, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Virginia Tech. In 2001-2002, he was a DeWitt Stetten Jr. Memorial Fellow in the History of Biomedical Sciences and Technology at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. He is the author of a book on the history of clinical trials and numerous other publications. In addition to his historical training, he has a Master of Public Policy degree from the Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary and a Master of Public Health degree from Virginia Commonwealth University-Medical College of Virginia. At present, he is a postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University in Washington, DC where he is collaborating with Alan I. Faden, a physician and Georgetown faculty member, on a book tentatively entitled "Cracks in the Caduceus: Medicine at Risk."