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The Pharos

Autumn 2007

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Editorial

  • The American Culture and Health Care
    by Edward D. Harris, Jr., MD

Articles

  • Homeric Wounds in Ancient Greek Art
    by Horton A. Johnson, MD
  • The Patient Who Tried to Cure His Own Cancer: Revisiting the Story of Morris Abram's Leukemia
    by Barron H. Lerner, MD, PhD
  • Lessons of a Child
    by Douglas P. Olson, MD
  • Discharged to the Streets: Who Cares?
    by Richard C. Christensen, MD, MA
  • The Lead Files: A Chronicle of Ignorance, Avarice, and Progress
    by Claire Panosian Dunavan, MD, and Sherman M. Mellinkoff, MD
  • The Anatomical Gift
    by William Fredette, MD
  • Megacode Guatemala
    by Kathleen Braico, MD
  • Burial at Sea
    by David A. Goodkin, MD
  • A Fragile Web of Understanding
    by Arno K. Kumagai, MD
  • The Wayward Eye
    by Roger P. Smith, PhD
  • Things Remembered
    by Mok-Chung Jennifer Cheng
  • Wear A Red Robe
    by Phoebe Este Koch, MD

Poetry

  • The Devourer of Things
    by J. Joseph Marr, MD
  • One of Us
    by Wynne Morrison, MD
  • Found in a Filing Cabinet
    by Alvan R. Feinstein, MD
  • Alpha-male Giraffes Have Learned to Get Carotid Ultrasound by Age 17
    by Ed Spudis, MD
  • Nine Holes
    by H. Harvey Gass, MD
  • Creation: Millennium 2000
    by Jules S. Shapiro, MD
  • Still, No Clue
    by Mary E. Knatterud, PhD

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    by Peter E. Dans
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