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I was listening to Talk Of The Nation Science Friday on my iPod today and they were talking about drug resistant Tuberculosis. They had a Dr. from National Jewish Hospital in Denver where that one guy who's been in the news recently cause he had been flying around the world with a case of it is being treated.

One thing they explained that I didn't know before was why National Jewish is such a big leader in pulmonary disease treatment. After all, that guy was from Atalanta, why send him here. The Dr. explained that they used to believe in sanatorium treatment and that mountain air and sunshine would help cure TB. Hence the Front Range of Colorado had many sanatorium and the pulmonary specialty came from that.