Winter 2017 - Alpha Omega Alpha

"Be worthy to serve the suffering."

-William W. Root, MD - Founder, 1902

Winter 2017

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In this Issue

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Editorial

Cognitive bias: Recognizing and managing our unconscious bias
Richard L. Byyny, MD, FACP

Articles

AΩA 2016 Fellows in Leadership complete successful year and are prepared to serve
Richard L. Byyny, MD, FACP; Cynthia Arndell, MD; Ronald Robinson, MD, MPH, MBA; and Elizabeth Warner, MD
The turn
Richard Rapport, MD
Albert Schweitzer: Worthy to serve the suffering
Peter R. Gunderman and Richard B. Gunderman, MD, PhD
F G M: The role of socioeconomic status in the practice and awareness of female genital mutilation
Reem A. Abdalla
The spleen: Superfluous organ or immunological wonder?
Don K. Nakayama, MD, MBA
Hidden away for seven decades: The identification and interment of ashes from the Dachau concentration camp
Kevin Alter and Edward C. Halperin, MD, MA
Reflection
Jacob Mandel

Poetry

Not Vitruvian Man
Clemens Schoenebeck
My swivel chair
John L. Wright, MD
The courtyard
James E. Sutton, MD, FACP
Illiteracy
Rahul Banerjee, MD

News and Features

Important AΩA program and award dates
Reviews and reflections
Let Me Heal: The Opportunity to Preserve Excellence in American Medicine; Rights Come to Mind: Brain Injury, Ethics, and the Struggle for Consciousness; American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic; Brief reviews and titles of books by AΩA members
Letters to the editor
Chapter and national news