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The Pharos

Summer 2016

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Editorial

  • The Pharos of Alpha Omega Alpha
    Richard L. Byyny, MD, FACP

Articles

  • On the problems of chatting with angels
    Thomas J. Poulton, MD
  • Walker Percy, burnout, and the physician's pilgrimage
    Richard B. Gunderman, MD, PhD
  • The key in the lock: Cardiac catheterization
    Morton A. Meyers, MD, FACR, FACG
  • "Cough, goddamn it!": A fearful mishap leads to the revolutionary advances in cardiology
    Morton A. Meyers, MD, FACR, FACG
  • A clash of values
    Emmett Hirsch, MD
  • Hands
    Therese S. Woodring
  • Lord Byron's lameness
    James Gamble, MD, PhD

Poetry

  • My first patient
    Alexandra Houston-Ludlam
  • Petrified
    Julia Jacobs
  • Reflection of my father
    Raymond C. Roy, MD, PhD
  • Requiem
    Michael Slade
  • Buried in the "et al"
    David H. Johnson, MD, MACP, FASCO

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  • Medicine in the Movies—Star-crossed: Love, death, and adolescence in two films
  • Reviews and reflections
    ~ When Breath Becomes Air
    ~ By the Bedside of the Patient
    ~ Matthias Buchinger: The Greatest German Living
    ~ NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
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