Volume 5, Issue 3 – Summer 2013

Current Issue

• Grand Prix: Waiting…Fergus Shanahan
• Silver Prize: Medicine musica…Daisy Fancourt
  

Medical History

The early days in the history of appendectomy…Damiano Rondelli
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of all?…Joanna Smolenski

John Wesley: amateur physican and health crusader…Paul Dakin
Mark Hanna’s knees and the Panama Canal…Michael Ellman

One woman’s journey for a tuberculosis cure…Terri Sinnott

Art

Medieval medical diagrams…Sara Öberg Strådal
Darwin at the Chinese opera…Sam Shuster
Toulouse-Lautrec and medicine…William Albury and George Weisz

Medicine and Literature

Dr. Blockhead’s victory: up there, down here…Angela Belli
Sylvia Plath: the tortured artist?…Kathleen Coggshall
Medical mysteries and detective doctors…Roslyn Weaver

Doctors, Patients, & Diseases

Doctor’s daughter…Constance Putnam
The patient writer…Ben Murnane
Ronnie’s gifts…Ivan Barry Pless
Hunters…Nam Nguyen

Making medical education interesting and exciting…Anuradha Joshi
Abraham Flexner: his life and legacy…M. Saleem Seyal
In defense of good pimping: the Socratic method…Gregory Marcus
Medical education in medieval Islam…Sara Ali

A classic case of vanity…Anthony Papagiannis

The membership examination—then…George Dunea

Becoming a Medical Professional

The benefit of literature to a medical student…Martin Conwill
Pushing back at perceptions of epilepsy…Laura Fitzpatrick
Pigs in medicine from Galen to xenotransplantation…Stanley Gutiontov

Poetry

Photo journalist – The garden in winter – The violets…Jeanne Bryner

New Briefs

The mystical prophet and his Bride of Christ…Hansjörg Rothe
Franz Anton Mesmer…James Franklin