Alice Fisher: A Nightingale in Philadelphia by Karen J. Egenes is the winner of our 2024–25 Nurse Essay Contest!
Our runner-up is Invitation to tea by Sandra E. Gaynor.
Thank you to all who participated!
Matters of the heart
| The history of the stethoscope, MAS Ahmed, Victoria Turnock The heart of Giselle, Emily Boyle Ibn al-Nafis and the pulmonary circulation, George Dunea Remembering Sir Thomas Lewis, Daniel Gelfman William Harvey, Philip Liebson |
| Rene Favaloro—Father of cardiac bypass surgery, Arpan K. Banerjee De Sénac’s early textbook on cardiology, Göran Wettrell History of endocarditis, Ramin Sam Raymond de Vieussens, Jeremy Parker Andreas Roland Gruentzig, Mahesh Raju |


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