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Selected articles and poems from our most recent edition of The Pharos are available for download below. You may also view past issues in our Back Issues section.

In this Issue:

• Memorial: Edward D. Harris, Jr., MD: July 7, 1937-May 21, 2010
• 2010 Helen H. Glaser Student Essay Awards
• 2010 Pharos Poetry Competition winners
• 2010 Carolyn L. Kuckein Student Research Fellowships
• Letters to the Editor
• Reviews and Reflections
• The Physician at the Movies
• National and Chapter News

Articles
• Medical publishing: Will paper live on? by Michael D. Lockshin, MD, MACR
• Almost five years later: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans health care, and the Louisiana State University Health Science Center, by Fred A. Lopez, MD
• Needlestick, by David Muller, MD
• Love song, by Michael Nissenblatt, MD
• Semmelweis: Magyar warrior, by Dean D. Richards III, MD
• Health Policy: The inadequacy of legislative procedures and the infirmity of physician organizations, by Dan F. Kopen, MD
• Health Policy: Direct-to-consumer advertising, by Francis J. haddy, MD, PhD

Poetry
• The Atheist Faces Death, by Myron F. Weiner, MD
• Endings Are Beginnings, by Eric Pfeiffer, MD
• When I Gets Big, by Alan Blum, MD
• Ode to a Jaundiced Eye, by Paul L. Wolf, MD
• What Would Heifetz Do? by Emanuel E. Garcia, MD
• The Candidate, by Herbert T. Abelson, MD
• The Gaze, by Blair P. Grubb, MD
• Spring of My Dying, by Raymond C. Roy, MD, PhD