Summer 2003

 
 

ARTICLES

The evolution of palliative care
Dame Cicely Saunders, O.M., M.D., D.B.E.

Commentary: "A window in your home"
Professor David Clark

Commentary: Her writings, her lectures, her role modeling of care
Kathleen M. Foley, M.D.

 

What I learned while dying
Cole A. Giller, M.D.

 

Compassion in America: Voices of humankind
Sonia Badreshia, M.D., and Vivek Bansal, M.D.

 

Journey through illness: A perspective on the patient-physician relationship
Prashant Vaishnava

   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
Henry N. Claman, M.D.

   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
David Watts, M.D.

Worthy to serve the suffering revisited
Barry J. Gainor, M.D.

Parallels and paradigms
Tresa Muir McNeal, M.D.

Combat
Timothy A. Crater, M.D.

A promise not kept
Bruce K. Jacobson, M.D.

 

POETRY

Torsade de pointes
Angelo Milazzo, Jr., M.D.

At the Annual Scientific Meeting
Fredric L. Coe, M.D.

Medical Zodiac
Bonnie Salomon, M.D.