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The Pharos

Winter 2010

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Editorial

  • Consultations . . . going, going gone?

Articles

  • A Fatal Zest for Living: The All Too Brief Life of Mario Lanza
    by Armando Cesari and Philip A. Mackowiak, MD
  • Getting Drug Money Out of Doctors' Offices
    by Purushottam A. Nagarkar
  • The Ethics of Cosmetic Enhancement
    by Anna Raphael, MD
  • The Effect of Gchat Deprivation on Medical Student Productivity
    by Steven Quinn
  • Josiah
    by Crystal Bowe
  • Health Policy: Will Health Reform Reduce Costs?
    by John A. Kastor, MD
  • Health Policy: Health Reform Requires Confronting Myths
    by Thomas H. Lee, MD

Poetry

  • Graft Rejection
    by J. Joseph Marr, MD
  • Meditation on Surgical Masks
    by Jenna Le
  • Carotid
    by Wynne Morrison, MD
  • Winning Poems of the 2009 Write a Poem for This Photo Contest
    Wear Something Red, by Carl Abbott, MD
    The Woman with Everything, by Ali Valdrighi
    A One Bag, One Leg Lady, by Bhagirath Majmudar, MD
    Undaunted, by Christine D. Hudak, MD
    Reflections on a Photograph, by Newton D. Scherl, MD
  • The Gift
    by Elyne N. Kahn
  • The Challenge
    by David DeWitt
  • Informal Education
    by Melanie Buskirk
  • Smoke
    by Ashley Mann

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