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Editorial: Mentoring and coaching in medicine
by Richard L. Byyny, MD, Executive Director, AΩA
Articles
"My life, my soul, my body I owe to you and God": Harvey Cushing and the patient-physician relationship seen through correspondence
by Courtney Pendleton
Choosing a medical specialty: Epiphany, where are you?
by Jenna L. Thomason, BS
Carlos Finlay, Walter Reed, and the politics of imperialism in early tropical medicine
by Daniel Liebowitz
The AMA and health care reform
by Allison Hinko, MD
Competencies as the basis for reformed premedical education: The case for an unrestricted liberal arts collegiate education
by Nathan Kase, MD, and David Muller, MD
Poetry
Breaking Bad News
by Sarah Leeper
A Reminder
by Angela Jiang
Mechanical Man
by Henry Langhorne, MD
Graduating, We Pack
by Sarah Buckley, MD
Adagio Ma Non Troppo
by Richard Bronson, MD
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2011 Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Awards
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The Physician at the movies
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