Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society

Judah Folkman, MD: 1933-2008
David G. Nathan, MD, and Michael A. Gimbrone, MD

Be still, my (irregularly) beating heart
Mark D. Lo, MD

Isabella
James Reilly, MD

Poem - Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)
Sarah Cross, MD

Poem - Do Old Men Dream?
Eric Pfeiffer, MD

Poem - Nursing Home Villanelle
Bonnie Salomon, MD

Poem - Bridge
Radhika Sreeraman
Pharos Poetry Competition winner

Poem - What Kind of Guy?
Richard Bronson, MD

Poem - Shut Up
Melvyn H. Schreiber, MD

Poem - Welcome to AΩA
Daniel V. Schidlow, MD

Poem - Palliatives
Virginia Aronson

Poem - My Eye Doctor
Jenna Le
Pharos Poetry Competition winner

Poem - Breaking Good News
Dean G. Gianakos, MD

Access to a healthy lifestyle: Not as simple as an apple a day
Muyibat A. Adelani, MD

A thank you note
Colonel Kenneth R. Kemp, MD, FACP, FCCP

Procedure note
Jonathan Han, MD

Poem - September Sunlight
Myron F. Weiner , MD

Poem - Aura
Nancy Lo
Pharos Poetry Competition winner

Poem - Day in a Golden Year
Yummy Nguyen
Pharos Poetry Competition winner

Poem - Adventures in Prostate Alley
Henry N. Claman, MD

Poem - Charged
Rose Bromberg

Poem - Morning Rounds
Aaron M. McGuffin, MD

Poem - Symmetry
Paula Brady
Pharos Poetry Competition winner

Poem - In the ICU at Christmastime
Sarah Cross, MD

Poem - Seeds
Leah Gilbert
Pharos Poetry Competition winner

The private remonstrance of Doctor Botkin, or Pharaoh's Physician
Andrew J. Schoenfeld, MD

The plug-in
Edward D. Harris, Jr., MD

Poem - Radiology Suite
Susan Rakley, MD

Poem - Green Shadows Across a Green Lawn
Helen Montague Foster, MD

Poem - Atrial Fibrillation
Henry Langhorne , MD

Poem - A Summer Sum
Joan B. Lehmann, MD

Poem - All the Mothers Are Busy
Helen Montague Foster, MD

First month on the wards
Madeline Leong

Poem - Campanology
Shane Neilson, MD

Poem - To a Friend at Sixty, Leaving for a New Job
Fredric L. Coe, MD

Poem - No Colored Ribbons for Them
Dennis Devereux, MD

Poem - Frequent Callers
Helen Montague Foster, MD

Poem - Wondering Waves
Steven F. Isenberg, MD

Poem - I'm Putting On My Earrings
Beverly Fuchs

And then there were eight
Heather Finlay-Morreale
Student essay competition winner

The smirk
Lori K. Soni
Student essay competition winner

Searching for God below the vocal cords
Mani Mokalla, MD

Poem - Path in the Afternoon
James S. Wilk, MD

Poem - Dance of the Student Doctor
Jay Augsburger, MD
Pharos Poetry Competition winner

Poem - She Lay Quietly
Jade B. Tam
Pharos Poetry Competition winner

Poem - A Tribute to Medical Stereotypes
Daniel Shumer

Burial at sea
David A. Goodkin, MD

A fragile web of understanding
Arno K. Kumagai, MD

The wayward eye
Roger P. Smith, PhD

Wear a red robe
Phoebe Este Koch
Student essay competition winner

Poem - The Devourer of Things
J. Joseph Marr, MD

Poem - One of us
Wynne Morrison, MD

Cartoon - Alpha-male giraffes have learned to get carotid ultrasound by age 17
Ed Spudis, MD

Poem - Nine Holes
H. Harvey Gass, MD

Poem - Creation: Millennium 2000
Jules S. Shapiro, MD

Poem - Still, No Clue
Mary E. Knatterud, PhD

Invaders from Mars, with commentary from Robbie Burns
Martin A. Samuels, MD

In the wake of Katrina: An update on the Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans
Fred A. Lopez, MD

Posthumous letters
Ryan M. Zimmerman

Mentoring: Nurturing clinician and physician scientists in an academic career
Herbert Y. Reynolds, MD

Unintentional fraud: An oxymoron?
Jessica Nutik Zitter, MD

The faculty dining room
Charles M. Plotz, MD, MedScD, MACR

Poem - Byte
Wynne Morrison, MD

Poem - Harvest
Charles Hoopes, MD

Consumer-driven health care: Implications for the physician/patient relationship
Marshall B. Kapp, JD, MPH

Commentary: Health Savings accounts—the avoidance of solution
Halsted R. Holman, MD

A trip to Philadelphia
Harry W. Fritts, Jr., MD

The gym
Sharon Lee Hostler, MD

Saved by AΩA
Earl Nation, MD

Poem - The Man Who Raised Nightingales
Richard Bronson, MD

Poem - Tiger Swallowtail
Steven F. Isenberg, MD

Poem - An Inconclusive Autopsy
Kenneth R. Lee, MD

Danse macabre: Poverty, social status, and health
Jeremiah A. Barondess, MD

Knowing my body
Jennifer Bernstein
Student essay competition winner

Of hospital advertising truths, half truths, and the academic medical center
Spyros Andreopoulos

Commentary: Of truths, half truths, and less than half truths on the road to health
Michael M.E. Johns, MD

Poem – To the end of her life
Eugene Z. Hirsch, MD

Poem – Warm nights in Oaxaca
Manuel Martínez-Maldonado, MD

Poem – A Rigid Mind Sprouts No New Crops
Dennis Devereux, MD

From amusement to anger: Samuel Clemens’s shifting attitude toward patent medicine
K. Patrick Ober, MD

Ramshackle lopsided research
Jack Coulehan, MD, MPH

Poem – Irritable Bowel
Myron F. Weiner, MD

Poem – Presbycusis
David Goldblatt, MD

Old Medicine in a New World
Trang La, MD, MBA
Student essay competition winner

Poem - The Listening Art
Arvey I. Rogers, MD

Poem - Anthropologist on Venus
Lauren Rusk, PhD

The universal efficacy of the generic glazed donut
Phil Granchi

Poem - Céleste Albaret burns the Cahiers Noirs
Manuel Martinez-Maldonado, MD

Poem - Arrhythmia
Myron F. Weiner, MD

In the eye of the storm: Charity Hospital and Hurricane Katrina
Fred A. Lopez, M.D.

Finding balance
Colin K.L. Phoon, M.Phil., M.D.

Poem - Fireflies
Urias A. Almagro, M.D.

A case of glimmering gloom
Katherine L. Wisner, M.D., M.S., Mark Bostridge, M.A. (Oxon), and Philip A. Mackowiak, M.D.

AMA's program for the twenty-first century
J. James Rohack, M.D., John H. Armstrong, M.D., Duane M. Cady, M.D., Edward L. Langston, M.D., Nancy H. Nielsen, M.D., ,Ph.D., and Donald J. Palmisano, M.D., J.D.

Sunday morning rounds when the Baptist Church Choir came through
Richard I. Haddy, M.D., and Theresa B. Haddy, M.D.

Problem solving: A story for medical educators
Bennett Lorber, M.D., D.Sc. (Hon)

Sports physicals
Dean A. Blumberg, M.D.

Poem - Supplemental oxygen
Daniel M. Becker, M.D., M.P.H., M.F.A.

Beijing Morning
Gerald S. Lazarus, M.D.

Demon, quack, scientist, or saint: Depictions of doctoring in the operatic literature
Todd A. Florin
Student essay competition winner

Poem - Vers la Flamme
Emanuel E. Garcia, M.D.

Immortality at Seventy-five
John L. Wright, M.D.

What do we mean by "the art of medicine"?
Hunter Groninger, M.D.

The workup, or Where is Champollion when we need him?
Faith T. Fitzgerald, M.D.

Poem - Out
Shane Neilson, M.D.

Poem - Offerings
Bonnie Salomon, M.D.

Renal colic on an African cliff while searching for smallpox
Pascal James Imperato, M.D., MPH&TM

The power of touch in clinical medicine
Julia E. Connolly, M.D.

An untimely illness: Dr. Osler calls upon a future first lady
Robert S. Pinals, M.D.

A philosophical basis for medical education
Matthew Menken, M.D.

Georg Büchner's Woyzeck: A tragic example of human experimentation without informed consent
Gunter Wolf, M.D.

David H. Solomon, M.D.
David Reuben, M.D.

Commentary
Kenneth Shine, M.D.

Medicine in art: Looking at "The Doctor"
Henry N. Claman, M.D.

The history of hysteria
Jane G. Morris, M.D., and Martin Donohoe, M.D.

"The Doctor"
Ting Bao, M.D.

Disease and Destiny and the postcard from Athens
Stanley S. Kahn, M.D.

Commentary: Medical history without medicine
Robert P. Hudson, M.D., M.A.C.P.

William Carlos Williams, M.D.: Lessons for physicians from his life and writings
Martin T. Donohoe, M.D.

Everyday amnesia: The curious effects of a common drug
Michael D. Hope

Is there magic in tropical rain?
Herbert A. Haessler, M.D.

A medical student's review of the British National Health Service (PDF)
Eric Randolph Bricker
Student essay competition winner

Commentary
Carol M. Black, C.B.E.

Guidance for the doctor's physician child
Herbert Y. Reynolds, M.D.

How life imitates baseball
David S. Goldfarb, M.D.

Death of a nation: The AIDS crisis in Zimbabwe
Tafadzwa Stephen Kasambira
Student essay competition winner

Angelical conjunction: Religion, reason, and inoculation in Boston, 1721–1722
David P. Harper
Student essay competition winner

The curative paradigm in medical education: Striking a balance between caring and curing
Michael J. Brenner
Student essay competition winner

Walking through the valley of the shadow of death: A student's perspective on death and the medical profession
Anita N. Ramsetty
Student essay competition winner