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History is all around us on the main Michigan Medicine campus. Which isn’t surprising, given that our Medical School opened in 1850 and our first hospital admitted its first patients in late 1869 -- the first university-owned hospital in the country.

Every July, a new crop of recent medical school graduates arrives at teaching hospitals nationwide – including hundreds at Michigan Medicine.

Right now in hospitals around the world, health care professionals taking care of patients with COVID-19 are going to great lengths to protect themselves and other patients from the coronavirus that causes the disease.

150 years ago, U-M made history when it converted a professor’s house

Today, we take them for granted. Huge university medical centers, filled with patients who travel miles to receive care that’s available nowhere else, from teams of highly specialized clinicians.

One hundred and fifty years ago this month, something extraordinary happened at the University of Michigan. Its effects have reverberated down through history – not only on the campus, but across the state and nation.

Sarah Gertrude Banks, champion of women’s suffrage and health care

An early adopter of radiology at U-M

Dean Vaughan and the 1918 influenza pandemic

Alumna Mary Hancock McLean, pioneering female surgeon

Dr. Howard Markel’s new book about the Kellogg brothers

Frederick Novy and the birth of the physician-scientist

Four generations at the Medical School

A 19th century medical sham

On cigarettes, once ubiquitous in hospitals