tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220692451759265115.post905321526392315297..comments2024-02-06T18:35:36.707-05:00Comments on History Between the Waters: Tangier Islanders Make Medical HistoryESVHShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710722926219530795noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220692451759265115.post-56110345724178336092019-05-23T21:09:18.895-04:002019-05-23T21:09:18.895-04:00In 1984 I was a student who participated in a prog...In 1984 I was a student who participated in a program that NIH had called the "Normal Volunteer Program"-healthy college students would live at the clinical center, have the opportunity to do research and in turn make themselves available as research controls for clinical protocols. I arrived at NIH during a record breaking cold spell and was shown my room and introduced to my roommate-Teddy. He had a strong accent; I asked him where he was from and he stated: "Tangier's Island!". I asked him if that was off the coast of Morocco. He told me it was in the Chesapeake Bay. We would be roommate for almost 4 months; I would learn that he was a waterman on the bay, play cards with his mother who was in a room down the hallway, meet his sister (also there to be studied), bring him on outings to Bish Thompsons bar and seafood restaurant, share stories with him and make him listen to my Barbara Streisand obsession-I played the theme from "Yentl" over and over again(in most ways I was a normal 25 year old, liked to party and do things my contemporaries did, the Streisand thing being an exception)-during those months. Only once did he threaten to throw my cassette player out of the window in frustration over have to listen to Barbara over and over again. Teddy would join myself and my fellow students on occasion. Teddy was a lovely man-kind, pure in the most genuine sense, and I have thought about him a lot over the years of my life. I am thinking of him now-in 2019-and how I continue to learn from the generosity of his nature.<br />Tod<br />tmilchman@yahoo.com todhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01090340532950055222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220692451759265115.post-30364186989340000082017-08-14T07:00:05.066-04:002017-08-14T07:00:05.066-04:00Teddy was a kind and gracious man. I met him in 1...Teddy was a kind and gracious man. I met him in 1984 while on E&M research at the NIH. He autographed my then-current edition of Harrison's: "Teddy Laird - the first one." S. Farrow, MD, MBA-ACE, CPEAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com