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The Pharos

Summer 2012

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Editorial

  • Editorial: Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society 1902-2012—Celebrating 110 years
    by Richard L. Byyny, MD, Executive Director, AΩA

Articles

  • Anton Chekhov in medical school—and after
    by Leon Morgenstern, MD
  • The heart of Oz: L. Frank Baum's cardiac disease
    by Robert S. Pinals, MD, and Harold Smulyan, MD
  • From Auschwitz with love
    by Stephen Harvey, MD
  • The children of physicians: The viewpoints of a small cohort of medical students upon entering the profession of their parents
    by Vladimir Ratushny, PhD
  • Needlepoint
    by Richard Rapport, MD
  • Past, present, and future
    by Chad Klochko, MS

Poetry

  • S.A.D.ness
    by Terrell Nabseth Stevenson, MD
  • Night float
    by Kalyan Banda, MD
  • Side by Side and In Tandem
    by Arvey I. Rogers, MD, FACP
  • A Private Place
    by Douglas Forsyth, MD

News and Features

  • Robert Joy Glaser, MD: 1918-2012
    by Richard L. Byyny, MD
  • The Physician at the movies
  • Reviews and reflections
  • 2012 Medical Student Service Leadership Project award winners
  • 2012 Carolyn L. Kuckein Student Research Fellowships
  • Constitution of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society
  • Letters to the editor
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