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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: Existentialism, the physician's philosophy
• Alpha Omega Alpha elects honorary members
• Letters to the Editor
• Reviews and Reflections
• The Physician at the Movies
• National and Chapter News: Minutes of the 2009 meeting of the board of directors of Alpha Omega Alpha

Articles
• Carolus Linnaeus (Carl von Linne), 1707-1778: The Swede Who Named Almost Everything, by Charles T. Ambrose, MD
• Drowning in Science, Saved by Shakespeare, by Larry Z. Zaroff, MD, PhD
• The Ethics of Cosmetic Enhancement, by Anna Raphael, MD
• Ethical Issues in the Use of Cognitive Enhancement, by Ryan Darby
• Death on Call, by Alison Wiesenthal
• Eudaimonia, Existentialism, and the Practice of Medicine, by Andrew Radu, MD
• Health Policy: The Consumer Movement in Health Care, by Eric J. Topol, MD
• Health Policy: Expanding Physician Supply - An Imperative for Health Care Reform, by Richard A. Cooper, MD

Poetry
• Rhabdomyosarcoma, by Mark Warren
• Studying in the Afternoon, by Erika Elise Reid
• The Alabaster Kiss, by John C. Wood, MD
• Snapshot, by Wynne Morrison, MD
• The Procedure, by Seth Ilgenfritz
• On Wrinkles, by Henry N. Claman, MD
• A Simple Walk, by Steven F. Isenberg, MD