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Editorial
Now is the time to enact a U.S. health care system
Richard L. Byyny, MD, FACP
Articles
The toughness of a trailblazer: Daniel Hale Williams, MD
Gregory W. Schneider, MD
Relations between a university’s medical school and its athletic department
Edward C. Halperin, MD, MA
James McCune Smith: Medical doctor, anti-slavery leader, and prominent intellectual
Petros C. Karakousis, MD
How Admiral Rodney’s disability saved the American Revolution
Robert S. Pinals, MD
Special COVID-19 Section
Essential work
Tomasz R. Okon, MD
Code Blue
Brandon Weller
Poetry
My partner, the geriatrician
Lynette Lamp, MD
Ode to an aging body
Myron F. Weiner, MD
If Billy Collins were a doctor
Aaron McGuffin, MD
News and Features
Reflections
Letters to the Editor
Book reviews
Medicine on the big and small screen
Disability, Instagram, and @sitting_pretty
2020 Honor Roll of Donors
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