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The Pharos

Spring 2022

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Editorial

  • Editorial I The American Health Care System is broken. It can and must be fixed.
    Barbara L. McAneny MD, MACP; Introduction by Richard L. Byyny, MD, FACP

Articles

  • Putting a human face on hospitals
    Joseph Gascho, MD
  • Color blind
    Himati Patel, MD, FACP, FHM
  • Lessons in communication
    Sabrina Kunselman
  • Medicine and the moon
    Leonard J. Hoenig, MD
  • Parkinson’s and me
    Frederic Platt, MD

Poetry

  • Therapeutic plasma exchange, number 53
    Aaron S. Hess, MD, PhD
  • A lone night’s vigil
    Evan D. Gorelick
  • I talk to my stethoscope
    Jack Coulehan, MD
  • Leah’s eyes
    Charles W. Shafer, MD
  • Elegy for Sally Carey*
    Alan Cohen, MD

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  • Reflections
  • Book reviews
  • Medicine on the big and small screen: The God Committee
  • In Memoriam
  • 2021 Honor roll of donors
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