• Special delivery
  When Ron and Robin LaGrassa left their Middleton home on the night of April 3 to come to the MGH to have their second child, they had no idea that labor would turn quickly into a roadside delivery far from the hospital.
  

• Paving the road for career advancement: First Minority Faculty Development Awards
  In his 25 years as a mentor and sought-after teacher, Ernesto Gonzalez, MD, of MGH Dermatology and an associate director of the MGH Multicultural Affairs Office (MAO), has worked with many talented young physicians who have trained here. But, when Gonzalez was asked by Peter L. Slavin, MD, president of the MGH, to oversee the selection process for a new clinician-teacher award, the task was even more challenging than he expected.
  

• MGH kicks off career development series
  MGH Training and Workforce Development will host a series of career development workshops between April 28 and June 1 to inform employees about growing fields in health care. The workshops will highlight medical fields such as nursing, pathology, pharmacy, radiologic technology, respiratory therapy, surgical technology, ultrasound and veterinarian technician careers.
  

• Match Day matches best of the best
  It may still feel like winter, but spring has sprung for medical students across the country who recently learned where they'll be going for their residency training. March 18 was Match Day, when more than 25,000 residency applicants nationwide learned which programs they will enter for graduate medical education (GME) training through the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP).
  

• Nerve damage can affect both sides of body
  MGH researchers have found evidence of a previously unknown communication between nerves on opposite sides of the body. In the upcoming Annals of Neurology, scientists describe how cutting a major nerve in one paw of a group of rats resulted in a significant decrease in skin nerve endings in the corresponding area of the opposite limb.
  

• Dazzled by the dome
  "An outstanding monument to the history of medicine," is how one visitor to the MGH described the Ether Dome. Home to the first successful public demonstration of the use of ether as an anesthetic in surgery, the Ether Dome — located in the Bulfinch Building on the fourth floor — is a common place for meetings to be held. What MGHers may not realize is that the dome also is a popular destination for tourists visiting Boston.
  

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