Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Salt Lake City To Las Vegas



Salt Lake City is, by current standards, a relatively small metropolitan area. The city itself has about 180,000 residents and the metro area just over one million. There is a larger geographic statistical area running from Ogden town through Salt Lake City called the Wasatch Front. All of that territory holds just over two million residents.



It remains a small city surrounded by hundreds of square miles of beautiful and rugged territory. That does not mean, however, that the city lacks cosmopolitan features. The University of Utah is headquartered there along with their medical school.



The plastic surgery division of Utah U's medical school has a long and venerable history. It was founded in 1967 by a physician recruited from Florida named Clifford Snyder. According to the school's web site, the plastic surgery department in its early years "developed an international reputation in mandibular distraction, microsurgery, hand reconstruction, treatment of venomous snake bite's."



You won't see that snake bite specialty at just any plastic surgery department in just any med school. You're still in the high desert regardless of the banks, office buildings and churches anchoring Salt Lake City.
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