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The Pharos

Winter 1996

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Editorial

  • Can we afford to be civilized?
    Michael O'Donnell, FRCGP, M.B., B.Chir.

Articles

  • Minor’s abortion: Is the requirement for parental consent ethically justified?
    Susan Michelle Yussman
  • So little time
    Arlene J. Zaloznik, M.D.
  • The great white plague: A personal memoir
    Edwin L. Kendig, Jr., M.D.
  • The cost of caring: A view of Britain's delivery of health care
    Ralph Crawshaw, M.D.
  • Parking lot encounter
    John C. Wood, M.D.
  • Issues of confidentiality in the information age
    Tony A. Frasca, M.P.H.
  • Identifying data
    Naomi R. Bluestone, M.D., M.P.H.
  • “Osler Recommends Chloroform at Sixty”
    Horton A. Johnson, M.D.
  • The physician ethic and managed care: Reformation parallels
    John D. Wasnick, M.D.
  • Early patient encounters: Second-year student narratives of initiation into clinical medicine
    Douglas R. Reifler, M.D.
  • Intimate strangers
    Sheila Gujrathi

Poetry

  • The Origin
    Michael B. Gravanis, M.D.
  • Ode to a Dead Son
    John C. Wood, M.D.
  • Closure
    Audrey Shafer, M.D.
  • A Pair of Pairs
    Henry N. Claman, M.D.

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  • Alpha Omega Alpha selects deputy executive secretary of the society, and deputy editor of The Pharos
  • Alpha Omega Alpha dues and The Pharos: Special notice
  • Questions and reflections: “Go read Crandon’s paper.”
    Harry W. Fritts, Jr., M.D.
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  • The physician at the movies Outbreak
  • Alpha Omega Alpha elects new honorary members
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