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The Pharos

Winter 1997

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Editorial

  • The architecture of conflict
    Vincent A. Gaudiani, M.D.

Articles

  • Trouble in paradise: Physicians in the managed care era
    Derell D. Porter
  • Soranus’s notion of sympathy and the modern patient: Challenges for medical methodology
    Patricia Irene Dickson
  • Medical practice: Past, present, future
    Denton A. Cooley, M.D.
  • There’s more to Doyle than Holmes!
    C. Frederick Kittle, M.D.
  • Border crossings in medical education
    Delese Wear, Ph.D.
  • An elective in tropical medicine: Eldoret, Kenya
    Dariush Mozaffarian, M.D.
  • The human toll of managed care
    J. Wesley Boyd, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Emily Post has surgery
    John D. Ashmore, Jr., M.D.
  • Questions and reflections: A teacher’s tale
    William Parson, M.D.

Poetry

  • Handshakes
    David G. Rinaldi, M.D.
  • Miracls Baby
    Susan F. Townsend, M.D
  • Holding On
    David G. Rinaldi, M.D.

Features

  • Notice to contributors
  • Alpha Omega Alpha elects new honorary members
  • Alpha Omega Alpha honorary members 1976-1996
  • Letters to the editor
  • Alpha Omega Alpha Chapter of the Year Award
  • The physician at the movies
  • Alpha Omega Alpha Distinguished Teacher Awards
  • Leaders in American Medicine: Audiovisual memoirs of distinguished physicians and biomedical scientists
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