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Information and cognitive overload: How much is too much?
Richard L. Byyny, MD, FACP
Articles
Managing mission tensions in academic health centers
Page S. Morahan, PhD; Sharon L. Newbill, PhD; Diane Magrane, MD; Sally Shumaker, PhD; Douglas Easterling, PhD; Aleya A. Lyn, MS; Deborah Helitzer, ScD; Gina Cardinali, MSW; Shine Chang, PhD
The 20th General Hospital: The reach of formalized medicine during World War II
Christopher Magoon
History of present illness
Liat Bird
The slavery hypertension hypothesis: A flawed explanation for its prevalence in African-Americans
James Comotto
Speaking for a world at war: John McCrae, physician, soldier, poet
Terrence Montague, CM, CD, MD
Shakespearean syphilis:An aggressive disease in evolution
Gregory W. Rutecki, MD
Poetry
Radiation therapy, circa 1930
Lee Passarella, PhD
Floaters
Clemens Schoenebeck
News and Features
Medicine in the movies – Real and unreal: The two worlds of Room
Amy Haddad, PhD
Reviews and Reflections
~ The Wound Dresser
~ My Degeneration: A Journey Through Parkinson’s (Graphic Medicine)
~ Pulse—voices from the heart of medicine: Editors’ Picks
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