Latest Issue

Selected articles and poems from our most recent edition of The Pharos are available for download below. You may also view past issues in our Back Issues section.

In this Issue:

• Editorial: AΩA and leadership, by Richard L. Byyny, MD, Executive Director, AΩA
• 2010/2011 Administrative Recognition Awards
• 2010/2011 Medical Student Service Project Awards
• 2010/2011 Volunteer Clinical Faculty Awards
• 2010/2011 Visiting Professorships
• 2011 Edward D. Harris Professionalism Award
• Letters to the Editor
• The Physician at the movies
• Reviews and reflections

Articles
• Clinical man (Homo clinicus), by Clifton K. Meador, MD
• "You're sick, we're quick": Retail clinics and their implications for the future of the American health care system, by Adam Mikolajczyk, MD
• Dollars and sense of electronic medical records: The impact of EMR on billing, coding, and physician reimbursement, by Charles Rutter, MD
• Truth, stranger than fiction: Silas Weir Mitchell and phantom limbs, by Eliza C. Miller
• Hideyo Noguchi: Controversial microbe hunter, by Don K. Nakayama
• Ulcers in Papua New Guinea: A contemplation on fairness, by Heather Relyea-Ashley, MD

Poetry
• Ode to a Suppository, by Myron F. Weiner, MD
• Sea Foam, by Steven F. Isenberg, MD
• How'd I like that no-salt diet you put me on? by Alan Blum, MD
• Spin, by Daniel J. McCarty, MD
• Anatomy, by Emily Silverman
• Broken, by Krishna Sury
• First Chair, by Sarah Rapp