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The Pharos

Autumn 1998

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Editorial

  • Oregon and health care spending
    Ralph Crawshaw, M.D
  • Responses from members of the editorial board of The Pharos

Articles

  • Holy anorexia and anorexia nervosa: Society and concept of disease
    Manisha Saraf
  • What it means to carry a defective gene: A moral introspection
    Aaron M. Lewis
  • Through the opera glass: A critical analysis of tuberculosis as presented in opera
    Michelle M. Morse
  • The ethics of practicing intubation on recently deceased patients
    David A. Cook
  • The coming clash: Patient advocates vs. the public interest
    Richard D. Lamm
  • Audiovisual memoirs of leaders in American medicine - Robert H. Williams, M.D.
    Oliver E. Owen, M.D.

Poetry

  • Darius (a Memory from Internship)
    Melville D. Bradley, M.D.
  • Morning Rounds
    Henry Langhorne, M.D.

Features

  • Questions and reflections: One blood, two biographies and Managed care folly -time to end the silence?
    Richard F. Gillum, M.D., J. Wesley Boyd, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Letters to the editor
  • Alpha Omega Alpha: National and chapter news
    Edward D. Harris, Jr., M.D.
  • Book reviews: The leisure joy of collecting books
    Bernard T. Ficarra, M.D.
  • The physician at the movies
  • Ovid H. Bell: In memoriam
    Robert J. Glaser, M.D.
  • Alpha Omega Alpha members elected in 1997-98
  • Index for Volume 61
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