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Winter 1994

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Editorial

  • Health care reform and academic medical centers
    Robert J. Glaser, M.D.

Articles

  • Doctors and dollars: Hippocrates revisited
    John A. Owen, Jr., M.D.
  • Reducing urban violence: A critique of the new public health approach
    Nathaniel Hupert
  • Night call — three vignettes
    F. Tremaine Billings, Jr., M.D.
  • African-Americans: Their health and the medical system
    Norbert R. Straub
  • Patient in desiree
    Naomi Bluestone, M.D., M.P.H.
  • Truman G. Blocker, Jr., M.D.: A twentieth-century “Renaissance” physician
    Denton A. Cooley, M.D.
  • Charting a slow dying
    Marian W. Blackwell, R.N.
  • Advice to a college student considering medicine as a career
    James M. McGreevy, M.D.
  • Is good health good?
    Richard V. Lee, M.D.

Poetry

  • Patricia
    Daniel J. McCarty, M.D.
  • The foxglove
    Ludwig W. Eichna, M.D.
  • Jogging in the Morning on West Shore Drive
    Daniel J. McCarty, M.D.

Features

  • Notice to contributors
  • Questions and reflections: Retirement: Missing a captive audience
    Charles E. Jackson, M.D.
  • Letters to the editor
  • The physician at the movies
  • John Z. Bowers, M.D. — In memoriam
  • Student Research Fellowships and Student Essay Awards
  • Past and present: “Why college education at all?”
  • Book reviews
  • Alpha Omega Alpha Distinguished Teacher Awards
  • New honorary members elected to Alpha Omega Alpha
  • Alpha Omega Alpha honorary members 1976-1993
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