Editorial
Endangered Speciesby Edward D. Harris, Jr., MD
Articles
Danse Macabre: Poverty, Social Status, and Healthby Jeremiah A. Barondess, MD Six Decades of Progress and Change in Hospital Medicine, 1974-2007 by Bruce Wang, BAS, Gurpreet Dhaliwal, MD, and Marvin H. Sleisenger, MD Saturday Night in Mariposa by Michael Liam O'Byrne Cole Porter's Orthopaedic Odysseyby James G. Gamble, MD, PhD Trauma on Trauma: Lessons from the Tsunami and Civil Conflict in Sri Lanka by Doruk Ozgediz, MD, MSc, Julie E. Adams, MD, and Rochelle Dicker, MD Knowing My Body by Jennifer Bernstein Matching Blindness Elimination Efforts to Health-seeking Behavior by Jonathan Helmsley Smith The Tradition of the Gold-headed Caneby Mark E. Silverman, MD, FRCP Of Hospital Advertising Truths, Half Truths, and the Academic Medical Center by Spyros Andreopoulos Commentary: Of Truths, Half Truths, and Less Than Half Truths on the Road to Health
News and Features
The physician at the movies, by Peter E. Dans, MDFlags of Our Fathers Flyboys Reviews and reflectionsThe Lost Art of Healing: Practicing Compassion in Medicine, by Bernard Lown The Doctor's Doctor: A Biography of Eugene A. Stead, Jr., by John Laszlo and Francis A. Neelon More Humane Medicine: A Liberal Catholic Bioethics, by James F. Drane Letters to the editor Announcement: "Cartoonists Take Up Smoking" 2006 Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Awards National and Chapter News Instructions for Pharos Authors