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Autumn 2016

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Editorial

  • Information and cognitive overload: How much is too much?
    Richard L. Byyny, MD, FACP

Articles

  • Managing mission tensions in academic health centers
    Page S. Morahan, PhD; Sharon L. Newbill, PhD; Diane Magrane, MD; Sally Shumaker, PhD; Douglas Easterling, PhD; Aleya A. Lyn, MS; Deborah Helitzer, ScD; Gina Cardinali, MSW; Shine Chang, PhD
  • The 20th General Hospital: The reach of formalized medicine during World War II
    Christopher Magoon
  • History of present illness
    Liat Bird
  • The slavery hypertension hypothesis: A flawed explanation for its prevalence in African-Americans
    James Comotto
  • Speaking for a world at war: John McCrae, physician, soldier, poet
    Terrence Montague, CM, CD, MD
  • Shakespearean syphilis:An aggressive disease in evolution
    Gregory W. Rutecki, MD

Poetry

  • Radiation therapy, circa 1930
    Lee Passarella, PhD
  • Floaters
    Clemens Schoenebeck

News and Features

  • Medicine in the movies – Real and unreal: The two worlds of Room
    Amy Haddad, PhD
  • Reviews and Reflections
    ~ The Wound Dresser
    ~ My Degeneration: A Journey Through Parkinson’s (Graphic Medicine)
    ~ Pulse—voices from the heart of medicine: Editors’ Picks
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