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Autumn 2026

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Editorial

  • Smoke. Mirrors. Truth.
    Paul Haidet, MD, MPH, Jodi Jarecke, DEd, MPH, Carolyn Melro, PhD, Tracy Moniz, PhD, and Amanda Cooper, MD

Articles

  • Cultural intimacy: medical education’s invisible velvet rope
    Jacob M. Appel, MD, JD, MPH
  • The strategic structure of medical education: How game theory reveals the gap between collaborative values and competitive incentives
    Skyler Hoang
  • The moral urgency of street medicine
    Ishaan Kumar
  • Spectrum on the screen: Lessons learned from neurodivergent physicians in medical dramas
    Jennifer Yu Wang, MD
  • Two screens, one heart
    Seighin McElderry
  • The “negative capability” of Dr. John Keats
    Richard B. Gunderman, MD, PhD
  • The digitally native patient: Reimagining adolescent-centered care in a networked era
    Mansi Kaushik

Poems

  • The surgeon speaks to his shadow
    David A. Lee, MD, MS, MBA
  • Code
    Phoebe Prioleau, MD
  • The rash that won’t stay
    Meriah Frauwirth
  • When light returns
    Michael Ebbert, MD, MHA
  • Prufrock as a second-year resident
    Aryeh M. Abeles, MD
  • Unfinished
    Samuel Durso, MD, MBA
  • Loneliness in abundance— Hidradenitis Suppurativa
    Krisha Tripathy

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