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The Pharos

Winter 2015

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Editorial

  • Are we appropriately preparing physicians to care for patients throughout their life journeys?
    by Phillip A. Pizzo, MD, with introduction by Richard L. Byyny, MD

Articles

  • The electronic health record: Are we the tools of our tools?
    by K. Patrick Ober, MD, and William B. Applegate, MD
  • The diverse and promising world of animal-derived medications
    by Varaz Bozoghlanian, MD, and Matthew Butteri, MD
  • Training surgery residents to write for publication
    Robert H. Glew, MD
  • The missionary and the peasant: Two women who helped bring modern medicine to Korea
    by Young S. Kwon, MPH, and Don K. Nakayama, MD, MBA
  • Christmas with Stashu
    Lauren Ciszak, MD

Poetry

  • Open Up, Baby
    by Richard F. Gillum, MD
  • Wounded
    by Bryan Cheyne, MD
  • This Is Not a Bill
    by Adam Possner, MD
  • A Life After Cancer
    by Matthew Mossanen, MD
  • Chemotherapy
    by Barnett Zumoff, MD
  • Elegy for a Gust of Wind
    by Jana Lichtenfeld, MD

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  • 2014 Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Awards
  • Alpha Omega Alpha elects honorary members
  • The physician at the movies
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