Vitrogonski's son Sacha(ph) is a medical student who says many medical school applicants pay thousands of dollars in bribes to pass their entrance exams and continue giving gifts to insure good grades.

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One such person who saw Gore's movie, An Inconvenient Truth, is Mary Ellen Gilder, a medical school student at Albany Medical College (and daughter of noted technologist and FORBES newsletter partner, George Gilder).

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In 1949 William Sewell, a student at Yale Medical School, used Erector girders, an Erector motor and rubber flaps from a party noisemaker to craft the first functional artificial heart.

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As a medical student at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, in Piscataway, he had planned to become a neuroscientist.

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In 1949 Yale Medical School student William Sewell used Erector girders, an Erector motor and rubber flaps from a party noisemaker to craft the first functional artificial heart.

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