PGH Radiology Director Tina Cooper stands at the controls of a nuclear camera that can detect bone cancers, heart disease and gallbladder problems, among many other internal conditions.
Tracy Askew, a registered diagnostic medical sonographer and registered vascular technologist, performs scans and interprets results from the ultrasound machine. IAN TOCHER/Staff
A “robot surgeon” at PGH with tube-like arms (foreground) can perform delicate gallbladder surgery using very thin, high-pressure streams of saline to cut out diseased tissue, among other uses. IAN TOCHER/Staff
When Tom Thompson arrived back home in Putnam County, barely out of his teens after being drafted and serving overseas during World War I, he returned to what once was a small but profitable family cotton farm reduced to a shell of its former self by the boll weevil infestation. Undaunted, Thompson secured a job at Hearn & Greene, a downtown Eatonton hardware store (now the Chamber of Comme...
