Summer 2003
ARTICLES The evolution of palliative care Commentary: "A window in your home" Commentary: Her writings, her lectures, her role modeling of care
What I learned while dying
Compassion in America: Voices of humankind
Journey through illness: A perspective on the patient-physician relationship Literature offers powerful insight into the human condition and has been useful in my study of medicine. This work highlights the insight about the patient-physician relationship that I have derived from my study of Dante's Inferno as part of the Introduction to the Patient-Physician Relationship course I enrolled in as a first-year student at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine.
Billroth and Brahms: A musical friendship Today, the name Billroth means gastric surgery. The Billroth I and II procedures denote epoch-making varieties of gastric resection, devised by the great Viennese surgeon, Theodor Billroth. He was a versatile man, however, and as medicine moves on, he may be remembered more and more as the firm friend of Johannes Brahms.
PERSPECTIVES The gift of nothing Worthy to serve the suffering revisited Parallels and paradigms Combat A promise not kept
POETRY Torsade de pointes At the Annual Scientific Meeting Medical Zodiac |
