Dialogue
A doctor learns to cope with death
Pauline W. Chen, M.D., HS ’98, often recalls the words of the late Yale surgeon C. Elton Cahow, M.D. She once heard him...
A digital treasure trove
James D. Jamieson, M.D., Ph.D., professor of cell biology, knew that he had a piece of history in his closet: lantern...
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Complications in Surgery and Traumaedited by Stephen M. Cohn, M.D., with contributions by Edward Lubin, M.D., Ph.D., FW...
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Colorectal Cancer: Evidence-Based Chemotherapy Strategiesedited by Leonard B. Saltz, M.D., with contributions by Edward...
Physician-assisted suicide is the wrong solution
At a time when life is devalued, when people are killed over necklaces or iPods, physician-assisted suicide ill serves...
Is sleep no more than a cure for sleepiness?
In 1989, when scientists kept rats from sleeping, the rats started to die by the 11th day. By the 32nd day, they were...
The teachings of Maimonides and a moral imperative
The 12th-century physician Maimonides, who lived in Spain and Egypt, achieved fame as a rabbi and philosopher yet...
Environment and society: which determines health risks?
A two-story house has peeling paint and no yard. Behind it loom industrial smokestacks. Mark R. Cullen, M.D. ’76, HS...
Simulation, Chinese herbs and a career studying killers
For our cover story this issue we asked writer Jennifer Kaylin to explore the ways in which simulation is used to train...
“Who among us would share?”
Please pass on my thanks to Ariane Kirtley for her article “Water is Life” [Yale Medicine, Winter 2007].I was...
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