Re: Schilling and the test

[maay100@bgumail.bgu.ac.il (Quastel)]

        Further to the information already sent by radsafers regarding this
test, there was a fine tribute to Robert F. Schilling by Robert D. Woodson
of the University of Wisconsin, in Amer. J. Hematology 34, 81-2, 1990.

        Dr. Woodson relates that Schilling, a modest person,insisted that
the procedure at the University of Wisconsin be listed in manuals as the
"Radioactive B-12 Test" where none of the staff could find it. After
repeated calls to the laboratory from perplexed individuals inquiring why a
Schilling test was not available, of all places, at the University of
Wisconsin, did he acquiesce and allow the usual designation.

        Michael Quastel, Head, Institute of Nuclear Medicine, Soroka
Medical Center and Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel