Editorial
- House officership — then and now
Robert J. Glaser, M.D.
Articles
- What does life support support?
Albert R. Jonsen, Ph.D. - Plato's cave revisited: A dialogue concerning medical epistemology
Keith Eric Sommers, M.D. - The surgical residency: Then, now, and future
Mark M. Ravitch, M.D. - Medicine understood through nonmedical literature: Contributions of selected women writers
Edward R. Eichner, M.D. - Where you think you stand determines what you think you see
George L. Engel, M.D. - The efficacy of empathy in diagnosis and treatment
Donald J. Carek, M.D. - Striking memories of medical education: A glimpse of three physician writers
Jeremy Sugarman, M.D. - Back to Hippocrates: The physician's role as central to medicine
Josef E. Fischer, M.D. - Saltern plus boni quam mali efficere conare: At least try to do more good than harm
Eugene D. Robin, M.D.
Features
- Volume 50 of The Pharos
Robert J. Glaser, M.D. - Honorary members elected to Alpha Omega Alpha
- Leaders in American Medicine
- Student Essay Award and Research Fellowship programs
- Notice to contributors
- Letters to the editor
- The physician at the movies
- Past and present
- Book reviews
- Alpha Omega Alpha board of directors annual meeting