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| Hektoen Essay Competition 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 & 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 |
| Medical Education 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 L. Franklin Albert Schweitzer Everyone is too busy Dementia paralytica Hubris syndrome Lord Moynihan The real Monte Cristo |