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Autumn 2025

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Editorial

  • Healthcare for all in the U.S.A.
    Richard L. Byyny, MD, FACP

Articles

  • Professionalism in an era of incivility
    Atul Grover, MD, PhD
  • We need the White Coat Ceremony more than ever
    Susan Ball, MD, MPH, MS
  • To measure in minutes
    Rowan Magnuson
  • Walking the tightrope: Compassion, detachment, and the cost of healing
    Eric A. Grin
  • Perspectives on birth and technology: Observations from Kawempe National Referral Hospital in Kampala, Uganda
    Sarah Chiavacci
  • Beyond the bedroom: Advocating for pleasure-centered sexual health education in medicine
    Reni Forer
  • Cicero and the blessings of growing old
    Richard B. Gunderman, MD, PhD
  • Two wheels, one path: Creating safer streets for a sustainable future
    Kaveri Curlin
  • MAiD: Medical Assistance in Dying
    India Burdon Dasbach, MD

Poetry

  • The ones that come in talking
    Andrea Austin, MD, MS-HPEd, FACEP, CHSE
  • Code room elegy
    Adam B. Mayerson, MD

Features

  • Book Reviews: The Cure for Women; Placebos
  • National and Chapter news: AΩA Board of Directors installs new officers and members; Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teachers Award recipients; Fellowship, grant, and award recipients
  • In memoriam
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