Howard Marget Spiro MD
Articles
Autumn 2008
When the doctor is the patient
Robert L. Klitzman, M.D. ’85, expected the grief that followed the death of his sister Karen, who died at the age of 38...
Autumn 2011
The legacy of Milton Winternitz
The man who laid the foundation of the modern School of Medicine has been largely forgotten, says Howard Spiro, M.D.,...
Spring 2011
Reactions to women in medicine
In her excellent essay on women in medicine in the Autumn 2010 issue of Yale Medicine [“Improving the lot of women in...
Autumn 2003
Knowing when 'not' to retire
As a “mature physician” of 65, I found that I disagree with a significant proportion of Dr. Kaufmann’s essay [“Knowing...
Winter 1999
Shame and grief over a matter of words
To the Editor: I read with interest the note about Howard Spiro and the quotation from his address in Vienna (Faculty...
Autumn 2003
It’s never to late to work: An open letter to Herbert Kaufmann
Dear Herbert,I read your recent essay, delighted at your eloquence if pained at your conclusion that doctors should...
Winter 2009
Spring 1984
Program for Humanities in Medicine“The School of Medicine recently received a grant from the Connecticut Council for...
Autumn 2007
Winter 1982
A Review: A Sense of the Ending“ ‘A Sense of the Ending’ is a television production about terminal illness as seen from...
Spring 2005
The Optimist: Meditations on Medicine
by Howard M. Spiro, M.D., professor emeritus of medicine (Science & Medicine) This compilation of essays by Spiro,...
Fall 1999 | Winter 2000
Doctors Afield
edited by Howard M. Spiro, M.D., professor emeritus of medicine; Mary G. McCrea Curnen, M.D., D.P.H., clinical...
Spring 2003
A Yale Guide to Careers in Medicine & the Health Professions: Pathways to Medicine in the 21st Century
edited by Robert Donaldson, M.D., former dean and David Paige Smith Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Kathleen Lundgren,...
Fall 1998
The Power of Hope: A Doctor’s Perspective
by Howard Spiro, M.D., professor of medicine, Yale University Press 1998.
Fall 1999 | Winter 2000
Six professors join ranks of emeritus faculty
Six senior faculty members at the School of Medicine attained emeritus status this year: Jerome M. Eisenstadt, Ph.D.,...
Summer 1998
Howard M. Spiro, M.D.
Howard M. Spiro, M.D., director of the Program for Humanities in Medicine and professor of internal medicine (digestive...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Howard M. Spiro, M.D.
Howard M. Spiro, M.D., professor emeritus of medicine and founder of the Program for Humanities in Medicine at Yale,...
Spring 2012
Reunion 2012
During the weekend of June 1-3, 372 alumni, spanning the years 1947 to 2008, shared meals at Marigolds, local...
Spring 2012
Gastroenterologist remembered for clinical acumen and devotion to the humanities
Family, friends, and colleagues gathered during this year’s reunion to remember the ever-listening ear, wicked wit, and...
Winter 1999
Lessons of healing: Exploring the link between spirituality and health
Throughout the ages, men and women have thanked deities for favors bestowed. Such blessings may be good health, fortune...
Fall 1999 | Winter 2000
A changing of the guard for Humanities in Medicine
For the past 16 years, faculty, students and the general public have gathered in the Beaumont Room one or two evenings...
