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By CAROLE MAHONEY
Rappahannock News Contributing Writer
Rappahannock County High School teacher Patti Waddell is on the cutting edge. She created her own information superhighway of sorts long before that term became a household word.
Every year for the past seven, she’s loaded a school bus with her advanced biology students and headed out on U.S. 211 for a two hour trek to the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and the National Museum of Health and Medicine in the Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C. She visited the first time because her past principal, John Toth, also a biology teacher, suggested she give the 134year-old museum a try. She keeps coming back because the public affairs office of the AFIP plans the tour around the students’ interests and the museum offers students a chance to view objects and artifacts they cannot see anywhere else, in an educational context they will not find anywhere else.
She will continue to bring students as long as they maintain an interest in health and medicine, Mrs. Waddell explained during her most recent museum tour on May 17. “Plus they find out so much information while they’re here, and the staff is so helpful. Once we were showed angioplasty on video tape. It was real informative.” Mrs. Waddell and her students witnessed the heart diagnostic test procedure during one of many behind the scenes tours arranged each year for her groups.
This trip, Mrs. Waddell’s students received an overview of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, heard a presentation from the Medical Examiner’s Office, toured a hyperbaric chamber, toured the human development/forensic imaging center and toured the museum’s special neuroanatomy collections before.exploring the exhibit galleries whereka few
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