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The Pharos

Summer 1999

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Editorial

  • The liberally educated and the physician
    Edward D. Harris, Jr., M.D.

Articles

  • The curative paradigm in medical education: Striking a balance between caring and curing
    Michael J. Brenner
  • Peabody’s dictum
    Alan Fine, M.D.
  • Walking through the valley of the shadow of death: A student’s perspective on death and the medical profession
    Anita N. Ramsetty
  • Our ship of death: Facing death in twentieth-century literature
    Jonathan D. Schwartz, M.D.
  • The Halstedian influence goes west: Personal and historical remarks
    William P. Longmire, Jr.. M.D.
  • Thirty-seven days on a hospital ship
    Leonard S. Kaplow, M.D.
  • Milestones for training safe doctors who are good doctors
    Barton F. Haynes, M.D.
  • Patients - our teachers: Two lessons learned
    Ernest W. Crow, M.D.

Poetry

  • Poem for the Exhausted
    Bonnie Salomon, M.D.
  • Empty Folders
    John L. Wright, M.D.
  • When Nurse Edith Got Her Cancer
    David Watts, M.D.

Features

  • About this issue: “Caring...”
    Edward D. Harris, Jr., M.D.
  • To our students: “What can I do for you?” and A servant’s heart
    Benjamin C. Sturgill, M.D., Faith T. Fitzgerald, M.D.
  • The physician at the movies and the theater
  • Audiovisual memoirs of Leaders in American Medicine:
    Russel V. Lee, M.D. Oliver E. Owen, M.D.
  • Questions and reflections: Industrialized health care and midcareer crises
    David E. Attarian, M.D.
  • Letters to the editor
  • National and chapter news
  • Book review
  • Alpha Omega Alpha visiting professorships — 1998 -1999
  • Alpha Omega Alpha Student Essay Awards
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