Have a headache? Take a Tylenol or some other brand of acetamenophen, right? Howe about a toothache? Menstrual cramps? Broken arm?
There are many types of over-the-counter pain relievers available to the consumer, namely acetaminophen, ibuprofen (Advil) and ASA (Aspirin). And, for many people, they’re very effective. The problem is, who is monitoring how much of these medications they take and how often?

It’s not an unusual theme: a young person enters medical school determined to help save the world – or at least his or her small part of it. As doctors, men and women hold so much potential in their hands and while some go on to practice in the more traditional fields, others move on to more developing areas of medicine, like transplantation. While every doctor does affect lives, what transplantation surgeons and researchers do is, quite literally, give life back to someone who had no chance of survival before.
Jeffery Steers, MD, is one such transplant surgeon. After graduating from …read more