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The Pharos

Winter 2011

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Editorial

  • The Song Goes On
    , by Robert Atnip, Board of Directors of AΩA

Articles

  • Visionary art: Shamans, Charles Bonnet, and the cave paintings
    by Henry N. Claman, MD
  • Going first
    by Susie Morris, MD, MA
  • The monsters of medicine: Political violence and the physician
    by Amanda J. Redig, MD, PhD
  • Breaking bad news: What poetry has to say about it
    by Dean Gianakos, MD
  • From rabbits to the League of Nations: Early standardization of the insulin unit
    by Barry Fields, MD
  • Health Policy: Our health care system is not broken—it's obsolete!
    by Jordan J. Cohen, MD

Poetry

  • Room K461
    by Mary Krane Derr
  • Musings on an Attic Tetradrachm
    by Alvin J. Cummins, MD
  • Sestina on Limb-Lengthening Surgery
    by Jenna Le
  • Heartache
    by John Allan, MD
  • The Defendant
    by H. Harvey Gass, MD
  • Memento Mori
    by Michael R. Milano, MD
  • Reading a Review
    by H. J. Van Peenen, MD
  • Winning Poems of the 2010 Write a Poem for This Photo Contest
  • WINNER: Benevolent Instructions
    by David R. Downs, MD
  • WINNER: Commencement
    by David F. Dozier, Jr., MD
  • WINNER: Adolescent Choices
    by H. J. Van Peenen, MD
  • Ageless
    by Thomas Atwater

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