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The Pharos

Winter 2024

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Editorial

  • The battered child syndrome—reflection and responsibility
    Richard L. Byyny, MD, FACP

Articles

  • Life on the fringes
    Richard Krugman, MD
  • Osler’s Deadliest Diagnosis
    Jeffrey Fisher, MD
  • Osler’s gravest prognosis: Extinction
    Charles S. Bryan, MD, MACP, FRCP; Devin M. Kellis
  • Finding inspiration and resilience in medicine
    Peter R. Gunderman, MD, MA, MTS; Moriah Carmel; Richard B. Gunderman, MD, PhD
  • The depiction of blindness in art
    Mark S. Ruttum, MD
  • Renewing the passion of Frida Kahlo
    Christopher Schifeling, MD
  • Improving resiliency and literacy
    Hans Kersten, MD
  • Philip Jaisohn, physician-insurrectionist and a father of Korean independence
    Don K. Nakayama, MD, MBA

Poetry

  • Twenty-Fours
    Lilit Sargsyan, MD
  • Thoracic Anatomy: A sestina
    Natalie Michal Perlov
  • Thanks
    Jared Curtis, PhD
  • Bites
    Antoinette Pusateri, MD

Features

  • Letters to the Editor
  • Book Reviews
  • Reflections
    Thomas Fekete, MD, MACP
  • In memoriam
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