Perspectives
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Handed Down Issue Autumn 2013Family
Growing up with a doctor in the house makes a lasting impression
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Handed Down Issue Autumn 2013Three Coins from Freud
A doctor-patient relationship spans nations and generations
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Body Language Issue Summer 2014Katie
A patient, met during a psychiatry residency, writes her doctor
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Body Language Issue Summer 2014Magnify and Simplify
How words, brillantly chosen, illuminate
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Body Language Issue Summer 2014Thanks
Death, expected, then unexpected, carries lessons
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Body Language Issue Summer 2014Tool Kit
A physician reflects on lessons learned from life — and from her granny
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Handed Down Issue Autumn 2013Fever Dreams
Childhood classics swathe familial illness, even death, in bravery, good deeds, and occasionally, magic
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The Science of Emotion Issue Summer 2011The Fight for Life
The pioneering surgeon of the world’s first successful human organ transplant reflects on the gift of life
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Ethics Issue Autumn 2016Morality Tales
There’s more than a bit of soul-searching needed when physicians bring patients’ stories out of the clinic and onto the page
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The Cost of Conflict Issue Spring 2018A Backward Glance
Recollections, reverent and otherwise, from a member of the Class of 1945
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Rural Health Issue Spring 2017Coltrane and Me
Why jazz is my religion and Wally’s is my temple
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Rural Health Issue Spring 2017The Vital Role of Rural Physicians
Dean’s letter to readers
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The Environment Issue Autumn 2017The sobering effects of climate change on health
Dean’s letter to readers
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