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Summer 1987

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Editorial

  • Publish (in the Yellow Pages) — or perish?
    Robert J. Glaser, M.D.

Articles

  • Toenails and heart transplants: Technology challenges humanistic medicine
    James B. Young, M.D.
  • A history of lobotomy in the United States
    Mary Ellen Ford
  • After fifteen years, what does M.D. really stand for?
    H. Steven Moffic, M.D.
  • Peter Irving (1771-1828): Physician, litterateur, and Burrite polemist
    R. H. Kampmeier, M.D.
  • Casualties of the health care system: Patients depressed by medicine's "moral dilemmas"
    David H. Rosen, M.D.
  • The summer of '44: Experiences with the Twelfth General Hospital (U.S.)
    Hiram T. Langston, M.D.
  • The death penalty: Dilemmas for physicians and society — A panel discussion
    Oscar A. Thorup, Jr., M.D., Moderator
  • University hospitals: Historical precedents
    Charles B. Rodning, M.D., Ph.D.
  • A lesson on ephemeral nodes and equanimity
    Steven L. Berk, M.D.

Poetry

  • Morning run and Hospital: 2 A.M
    Stephen C. Sorsby, M.D.
  • A thought for the meek
    John L. Dusseau
  • Jabberdoctry
    Jemshed A. Khan, M.D.

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