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The Pharos

Spring 2015

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Editorial

  • The academic health center in a disrupted world
    by Steven A. Wartman, MD, PhD, with introduction by Richard L. Byyny, MD

Articles

  • The $6 million physician: A history of robotics making surgeons better, stronger, faster
    by Marc A. Polacco
  • 23andWe: How can doctors decode direct-to-consumer genetic testing?
    by Melissa Pritchard
  • Claude Bernard: A failed playwright
    by Irving Kushner, MD
  • Breaking the silence
    by N. Karp, MD
  • Cowboy
    by Thomas T. McGranahan, Sr., MD
  • The Doctor Jim Health Plan
    by Joel Chinitz, MD

Poetry

  • Med Students
    by Richard F. Gillum, MD
  • Stroke
    by Henry Claman, MD
  • Hope Springs Eternal
    Albert I. Kaufman, PhD
  • Emesis
    by Aaron McGuffin, MD

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  • New members of the Pharos editorial board
  • The physician at the movies
  • Reviews and reflections
  • Letter to the editor
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