Letters
From the editor: Yale med alums and their chosen career paths
As the alumni reunion in June approached last year, our colleagues in the development and alumni offices noted that graduates of the School of Medicine had excelled not only in medicine but in other pursuits. Many are outstanding clinicians and scientists, and many have gone on to serve as deans of medical schools....
The best of Yale Med: readers rate top docs, scientists, and teachers
Early last year, in anticipation of the School of Medicine’s bicentennial in 2010, we asked for your thoughts on the...
From Other Issues
Winter 2013
No shortage of breaking news
People often ask how we come up with ideas for the articles that appear in Yale Medicine. There’s no easy answer to...
Winter 2013
How words can give comfort
It’s Day Two of the Hospital of Saint Raphael becoming part of Yale-New Haven Hospital. Since I came to the United...
Winter 2013
Tribute to Arthur Ebbert rekindles memories
What a wonderful tribute to Arthur Ebbert in the Autumn 2012 edition of Yale Medicine! [“A gentle man,” Yale Medicine,...
Winter 2013
Photo dating incorrect
As usual, Yale Medicine is splendid. I well recall Arthur Ebbert, M.D., and you have nicely and aptly summarized his...
Winter 2013
From the editor
Many alumni wrote to point out the incorrect dating of the photograph mentioned above. As best we can determine, the...
Autumn 2012
A modest man remembered
Arthur Ebbert Jr., M.D., would by all accounts be embarrassed by the issue of Yale Medicine that you hold in your...
Autumn 2012
Tom Forbes remembered
When I was in medical school one of our anatomy professors, Tom Forbes, taught an optional course about the history of...
Autumn 2012
Kudos for Yale Medicine
Yale Medicine received four awards from the New England chapter of the American Medical Writers Association in January....
Autumn 2012
In search of … YSM class photos!
The School of Medicine’s Alumni Office and the Historical Library are hoping to fill gaps in our collection of class...
Autumn 2012
Correction
An alumni note in the Spring 2012 issue incorrectly stated that Carolyn Goldberg, M.D. ’10, and Philip Butler, M.D....
Spring 2012
Yale Medicine goes viral
As one who came of age professionally in the era of print and attended a high school that kept academic records on...
Spring 2012
On physician-scientists
Congratulations to Colleen Shaddox for a very interesting and timely article in the Autumn 2011 edition [“Is the...
Winter 2012
From the editor: A clinic in Nepal and doctors who write
In the fall of 2006, Jason Andrews, M.D. ’07, then a student at the School of Medicine, approached Yale Medicine to ask...
Winter 2012
Correction
An obituary in the Autumn 2011 issue of Yale Medicine incorrectly listed the house staff years of Walter P. Sy, M.D. He...
Winter 2012
Public Health Service as a career
The U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (USPHS), one of the seven uniformed services, offers an alternative...
Winter 2012
Physician Associates slighted in article
I read your article about medicine and the military expecting that you would mention the contributions of Yale PAs in...
Winter 2012
Global Health Program not the first
I feel compelled to point out that although Michele Barry, M.D., HS ’77, and Frank J. Bia, M.D., M.P.H., FW ’79, were...
Autumn 2011
From the editor: Health care for the uninsured, and encouraging physician-scientists
Many physicians at the School of Medicine have devoted their time and skills to providing free care for the uninsured....
Autumn 2011
To serve this great nation
I particularly enjoyed the article on Norman Elliott, M.D. ’79 [Yale Medicine, Spring 2011]. He is a distinguished...
Autumn 2011
On medicine and the military
I enjoyed your article on “Medicine and the military” [Yale Medicine, Spring 2011]. I had the privilege of working with...
Autumn 2011
Killing is never the goal
“Medicine and the military” [Yale Medicine, Spring 2011] reports an admissions interview at the School of Medicine in...
Autumn 2011
A remembrance of the Cushing collection
An article in a previous issue [“Cushing collection once again open for research,” Yale Medicine, Spring 2010] didn’t...
Spring 2011
From the editor: A snapshot of the School of Medicine
Since I started working at Yale Medicine in 1998, no issue of the magazine has generated the response of that to our...
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...
Spring 2011
Remembering Tom Forbes
When I returned to New Haven for the 45th reunion of the Medical School Class of 1965, my classmates immediately began...
Spring 2011
A “phantom” in the Class of ’72
I was pleased to read in Yale Medicine that Donald Berwick, M.D., was the Commencement speaker last year. The article...
Autumn 2010
From the editor: Keep the letters coming!
As an alumni magazine Yale Medicine has a built-in hook to attract readers—our Alumni Notes page. We always like to...
Autumn 2010
Only one take on health care?
Are we to believe from the article [“From Cedar Street to Capitol Hill,” Yale Medicine, Winter 2010] that there are no...
Autumn 2010
Student lauds psychiatry elective in Peru
Recently I had the opportunity to pilot a new psychiatry elective at the Mental Health Commission of Ayacucho in Peru....
Autumn 2010
Account of Cushing surgery rekindles memory
I was interested in your account of Harvey Cushing’s second operation on General Leonard Wood in 1927 [“Cushing...
Autumn 2010
Liberal arts important for clinicians
The article “Keeping Body and Soul Together” [Yale Medicine, Spring 2010] resonated with my wife and me. We have felt...
Autumn 2010
Correction
In the Spring 2010 issue of Yale Medicine, the sidebar to the article “Biotech After the Bust” included incorrect...
Spring 2010
From the editor: Alumni offer their time and wisdom
In February about a dozen alumni, as well as past and current faculty members, came together at New Haven’s Lawn Club...
Spring 2010
Congratulations for embracing PA Program
I was very pleased to see the Yale Physician Associate Program featured in the Autumn 2009 issue of Yale Medicine...
Spring 2010
Strong forces aligned against medicine
“Doctors for America,” which appeared in the Winter 2010 issue of Yale Medicine, emphasized the need for physicians to...
Spring 2010
No guarantee of happiness in life
The article in the Winter 2010 issue [“Doctors for America”] floored me with its naïve egalitarian comments, especially...
Autumn 2009
From the editor: A survey, a redesign, and a more frugal approach
Our thanks go to all of you who participated in our readership survey, not only for taking the time to reply, but also...
Autumn 2009
More premed courses should be required
I applaud and agree with the concepts expressed in “Reform of Premed Education Under Way” [Yale Medicine, Winter...
Autumn 2009
Propaganda and the law of unintended consequences
I am sorry I cannot be in New Haven to see the exhibit of anti-VD posters used by the armed forces in World War II. It...
Autumn 2009
Correction
A photograph that appeared in “200 Years of Medicine at Yale,” [Yale Medicine, Spring 2009, page 20] was incorrectly...
Spring 2009
From the editor: World events bring change to Yale and to Yale Medicine
Changes—some long-planned, others arising of necessity—are in the air for Yale Medicine. For more than a year we’ve...
Spring 2009
Make premed courses more relevant
One of the benefits that are sure to result from making the premed curriculum more relevant to medical practice...
Spring 2009
Thanks for the photos from a fan of the big dig
My 2-year-old son would like to thank you for the wonderful photos in your Winter 2009 issue [“As the Medical Center...
Spring 2009
Article on physical exam recalls Klatskin's skill
I just received the Winter 2009 edition of Yale Medicine and enjoyed a number of articles, including the roast of...
Spring 2009
Writing award for Yale Medicine editor
In February we learned that John Curtis, managing editor of Yale Medicine, had received the Award for Excellence in...
Winter 2009
From the editor: Two faculty members move on, but remain close at hand
Eleven years ago when I started as a staff writer here at Yale Medicine, one of the first people I met was Michael...
Autumn 2008
From the editor: Basic science vs. translational research, and medicine and rain forests
In the autumn of 2006, Yale became one of a handful of medical schools to receive a CTSA grant from the National...
Autumn 2008
We should expect our students to be literate
It was with some sadness that I read of the teaching of ethics by my colleague, Alan A. Stone, M.D. ’55, to his...
Autumn 2008
Med school missing from cover
I find an interesting example of the complex relationship between the School of Medicine and the main campus...
Spring 2008
From the editor: Starting point
In the fall of 2006 Bayer HealthCare announced that it was closing its plant in West Haven and Orange and putting the...
Spring 2008
Why primary care draws fewer physicians
Two physicians lamented the decline of primary care in Yale Medicine [“Taking the e-road,” Autumn 2007]. Having been a...
Spring 2008
Uganda story rekindles memories
As I skimmed the article in Yale Medicine [“On the Wards in Uganda,” Winter 2008], I felt goose bumps. I had the most...
Spring 2008
Yale should set standards for collaborations
Being familiar with the inspiring story of the heroic doctors and nurses from Yale who risked their lives—and in some...
Winter 2008
From the editor: Lessons from Uganda
When I returned from Uganda in July, people who asked about my reporting trip to Mulago Hospital assumed that the Yale...
Winter 2008
Yale should produce more primary care physicians
I would be truly impressed if Yale pursued the path of producing more primary care physicians. As a “liberal”...
Winter 2008
Primary care is vanishing as a practice model
Regarding “Taking the E-ROAD” [Yale Medicine, Autumn 2007], I’d like to tell the academics who decry the decline in the...
Spring 2007
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...
Spring 2007
“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...
Spring 2007
Beeson article brings back memories
I read with more than passing interest the piece by Richard Rapport, M.D., on Paul Beeson, who was one of my real-life...
Autumn 2006
Fertility, drug discovery and a good-bye
In our cover story for this issue, Contributing Editor Marc Wortman reports on the time he spent with pharmacology...
Autumn 2006
Ecoepidemiology an important area of study
I found the article on EcoEpidemiology [“When Animals Sound a Warning,” Spring 2006] very interesting. I am a D.V.M....
Autumn 2006
Duran-Reynals and the viral etiology of cancer
Jennifer Kaylin’s article, “The Virus Behind the Cancer” [Spring 2006], unfortunately omits mention of Francisco...
Autumn 2006
New deans at the medical school
This spring Richard Belitsky, M.D., associate professor of psychiatry, was named deputy dean for education, effective...
Spring 2006
A world of connections
This issue’s feature lineup begins with a tale of connections—among Yale alumni and faculty, among doctors and patients...
Spring 2006
News of my demise is premature
According to the alumni reunion report for the Class of 1960 published in the Autumn 2005 issue of Yale Medicine,...
Spring 2006
Dishonest reporting in Vietnam and PTSD
As a combat surgeon in DaNang in 1968, I experienced the Tet Offensive firsthand and saw more carnage than most...
Spring 2006
Chase leaving to study what makes good doctors
In December the medical school’s deputy dean for education, Herbert S. Chase Jr., M.D., announced that he would be...
Autumn 2005
Nostalgia of another kind
In 1980, years after the last troops returned home from Vietnam, the military and medical establishments put a name on...
Autumn 2005
Article ignored ethical aspects of stem cell research
I was disappointed with the Chronicle piece by Marc Wortman [“For Stem Cell Researcher, Connecticut’s Initiative Offers...
Autumn 2005
Article on schistosomiasis was inspiring
I want to congratulate Kohar Jones for her impressive and beautiful article [“The Silent Scourge of Development,”...
Autumn 2005
Ibn Sina’s roots
I enjoy reading the articles in Yale Medicine very much and I think the magazine offers an excellent selection of...
Summer 2005
Small answers to big questions
They say an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, but changing unhealthy behaviors is not always a simple...
Summer 2005
Well-rested residents make fewer mistakes
“Recreating the Residency” by Peter Farley [Fall/Winter 2004] contains a large amount of palaver garnered from...
Summer 2005
Zaccagnino to retire as CEO of YNHH
As this issue of Yale Medicine was being prepared, Joseph A. Zaccagnino, M.P.H. ’70, president and CEO of Yale-New...
Spring 2005
Fish tales, on the up and up
Last September, I was listening to a lecture in the Anlyan Center when a fascinating bit of data flashed on the screen....
Spring 2005
The 80-hour week, and its aftermath
I read with interest your recent article on resident hours [“Re-creating the Residency,” Fall/Winter 2004]. I was among...
Spring 2005
Enlightened HMOs make time for CME
Writer Jill Max quoted Lawrence S. Cohen, M.D., as saying: “One of the challenges in the environment is that...
Spring 2005
Merson steps down as dean of public health
As this issue of Yale Medicine was being prepared, we learned that Michael H. Merson, M.D., the Anna M.R. Lauder...
Fall/Winter 2004
Waiting it out in Haiti
At this writing at the end of September, Haiti has just endured another storm and 10 days of devastation following...
Fall/Winter 2004
Sally Provence’s autism work deserves mention
The article on autism in the Summer 2004 issue brought back interesting memories. In 1953 I was on the pediatric house...
Fall/Winter 2004
First among surgeons, last in the spotlight
I noted the letter in the Summer 2004 issue of Yale Medicine about Max Taffel. I was a resident in surgery at Yale from...
Fall/Winter 2004
Suspicions about hair dye are confirmed
I read with great personal interest the article about Dr. Zheng, “Increased Risk of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Linked to...
Summer 2004
Seeing with new eyes
There was a moment, probably sometime in the mid-1980s, when my awareness of the politics of disability eclipsed my...
Summer 2004
Ethical decisions are not always unanimous
As a former Yale house officer trained at Yale nearly 50 years ago, I want to congratulate the bioethics program...
Summer 2004
Max Taffel, a surgeon, not a neurosurgeon
I was sad to read of the death of Max Taffel [In memoriam, Spring 2004].You reported that Dr. Taffel was a...
Spring 2004
Connective tissue
I still have vivid memories of my first day of dorm life. The year was 1977, the city was Baltimore and the weather was...
Spring 2004
“I loved medicine but do not miss it”
The following is a response to a letter from Howard Spiro, M.D., that appeared in the Autumn 2003 issue of Yale...
Spring 2004
Strong support from chief helped female surgeons
I read with interest the article on the growing number of women in surgery [“Closing the Gender Gap,” Winter 2004] and...
Spring 2004
Cos, not Ephesus, was Hippocrates’ birthplace
In reference to the caption under the photo of a sycamore tree on Harkness Lawn [“A Nurturing Vision,” Winter 2004],...
Winter 2004
Changing medicine’s cultural landscape
When I was a child in Washington in the early 1960s, I was present for, if not exactly cognizant of, the reaching of...
Winter 2004
From the witness stand, more evidence on malpractice
Your article on the malpractice crisis [“Showdown,” Summer 2003] prompted me to think about the huge challenges our...
Autumn 2003
The things that matter
As one can see from these pages, our mailbag has been bursting lately. Some of the letters affirm an idea expressed...
Autumn 2003
It’s high time to fix the malpractice mess
Your article “Showdown” in the summer issue of Yale Medicinebrings out the sorry state of affairs in the medicolegal...
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...
Autumn 2003
Thanks for the news from Cedar Street
Again I am awed by this spectacular publication you have crafted with its singular breadth and depth, sensitivity and...
Autumn 2003
Don’t make the same mistake that California did
In addition to my medical training at Yale, I have a law degree from Stanford. (OK, I know it’s second place to Yale’s...
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...
Summer 2003
This just in
One of the dubious pleasures of editing a magazine is taking an issue that is ready to go to print and remaking it...
Summer 2003
A new world view
This issue’s cover stories from Russia mark a new chapter in Yale Medicine’s efforts to report on the activities of...
Summer 2003
Above and beyond the call at Commencement
On behalf of my family and myself, I want to express my gratitude to the entire staff who organized, reorganized and...
Summer 2003
As we went to press, the kudos were flying
Each spring the National Academy of Sciences elects new members, bestowing one of the highest honors a U.S. scientist...
Spring 2003
Support and passion give hope for the Yale System
On behalf of the students who spent many hours stuffing envelopes and debating the current state of the Yale System,...
Spring 2003
Support and passion give hope for the Yale System
I think Yale Medicine has become progressively better in the last few years. The article by Gerry Burrow on Winternitz...
Spring 2003
An interesting program in store for Alumni Weekend
I’d like to take advantage of the pages of Yale Medicine to remind my friends and colleagues of Alumni Weekend on...
Winter 2003
On the move on moving day
When cardiovascular researcher Jeffrey Bender and hundreds of his colleagues unpack their labs and offices in the...
Winter 2003
The Yale System, in black and white
Congratulations on the autumn issue of Yale Medicine. The handwritten letters on the front and back covers convey the...
Winter 2003
In praise of Milton Winternitz
I read the article adapted from Dr. Gerard Burrow’s A History of Yale’s School of Medicine: Passing Torches to Others...
Winter 2003
Remembering Gustaf Lindskog
On page 62 of your last issue, a good one, I read of the passing of G.E. Lindskog. As house staff, I scrubbed many...
Winter 2003
The health of nations, the art of medicine
The article “A World of Difference” [Autumn 2001] caught my attention, though I’ve been slow responding. I have...
Autumn 2002
The state of The System
In the Spring issue of Yale Medicine we promised to report on the state of the Yale System, the school’s...
Autumn 2002
Eyes opened, hearts extended
Kudos on Monique Tello’s Letter from Guatemala [“Eyes Wide Open,” Summer 2002]. It was well written and moving and...
Autumn 2002
Just the facts
I have become used to accepting regular misstatements of historical fact in Yale Medicine, but the Spring 2002 issue...
Autumn 2002
More alumni news, please
I am delighted with the “new” Yale Medicine. It’s readable and full of good information.One disappointment, however....
Summer 2002
Hand-eye coordination
It’s been a humbling spring here at Yale Medicine headquarters. Just when we thought we had come up with the perfect...
Summer 2002
State-of-the-art surgery
Dr. Robert Udelsman’s concerns about departmental fiscal efficiencies reminded me of a study that indicated hospital...
Summer 2002
A thing of beauty
I am on the list of those who receive Yale Medicine. I can’t tell you how much I enjoy this publication. Each page is...
Summer 2002
As we went to press
At press time we received the sad news that Albert J. Solnit, M.D., HS ’52, died following an automobile accident in...
Spring 2002
Feedback mechanism
Two years ago, the spring issue of Yale Medicine included a feature story on an initiative by Dean David A. Kessler,...
Spring 2002
Another lesson from anthrax
Yale Medicine’s roundtable on bioterrorism was an encouraging take on a very discouraging subject (“Lessons from...
Spring 2002
A slight for sore eyes?
Apropos of the letter from John Mahoney, M.D. ’00, in the Winter 2002 issue, I’m gratified that he, as a young person,...
Spring 2002
Good news, bad news
We found ourselves on the receiving end of a brief flood of opinions this spring from readers who found our new...
Winter 2002
Challenge for the eyes, even young ones
I received the new Yale Medicine [Autumn 2001] yesterday, and the new format is nice. I would like to say, however,...
Winter 2002
A classmate remembered, nearly forty years later
I remember Donald Cohen [In memoriam, Autumn 2001].I recall our first meeting. September 1962. By the democracy of the...
Winter 2002
A reminder of words from not so long ago
Though tired after replacing a hip and intertrochanteric fracture that afternoon and evening, I was surprised to see an...
Autumn 2001
Walking a fine line
Every so often someone will offer an idea for an article or a comment about a piece they read in “the journal,” meaning...
Autumn 2001
Communication still doesn't come easy
I read with interest your article entitled “A Dramatic Turn” [Spring 2001] regarding the physician-patient...
Autumn 2001
Taking the pulse of health interactions
In the Spring 2001 issue, the article “A Dramatic Turn” provided a thought-provoking look at the physician-patient...
Autumn 2001
Thank you for an outstanding magazine
May I take this opportunity to commend you on the excellent quality and caliber of Yale Medicine. It is outstanding,...
Autumn 2001
What the story said about needle exchange
I was very much impressed by “What the Needles Said” [Summer 2001]. This very positive and accurate reporting of the...
Spring 2001
Building relationships in the classroom and the clinic
When we chose the lineup of feature stories for this issue of Yale Medicine, we didn’t make a conscious decision to...
Spring 2001
Keep up the good work
To the editor:Yale Medicine has certainly gone upscale. It is quite a magazine—and also I suspect a great marketing...
Spring 2001
No compliments for alternative care
To the Editor:I date way back from the class of 1942. In my class were members Michael Puzak and James Bunce, noted on...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Change is in the air
Last year, as we began the process of fine-tuning Yale Medicine’s content and design to create a more interesting and...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
You’ve come a long way, Eli, in accommodating disability
Cathy Shufro’s piece on graduate student Matthew Weed [“Bringing Science Into Focus,” Summer 2000] was inspiring. I was...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
A new gloss on magazine’s design
I have long enjoyed and valued the copies of Yale Medicine that have come to me in the mail. However, the glossy paper...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Debate on Lyme therapy should continue
The Lyme disease article on page 12 of the summer edition [“Conventional Lyme Treatment Found Effective,” Summer 2000]...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Through the pages of Yale Medicine, a colorful past
Having also read Connecticut Medicine for many years, I enjoyed the section entitled “50 years ago in Connecticut...
Summer 2000
The early days of antibiotics
To the editor:I read with great interest John Curtis’ recent article on the first use of penicillin in this country...
Summer 2000
Before penicillin, the sulfa drugs
To the editor:Your story on the first use of penicillin bought back memories of another first use, an earlier one, that...
Summer 2000
Eyewitness to disaster
To the editor:Thank you for the fine article about the circus fire of 1944 [“A Tragedy’s Medical Aftermath,” Capsule,...
Summer 2000
Other hands helped with healing
To the editor:At the proper interval after the Hartford circus fire several of the house staff and perhaps a few...
Summer 2000
Sorry to bug you
To the editor:Oops! Someone pulled out the wrong slide. The image inside the cover of the spring 2000 issue of Yale...
Spring 2000
Another side of Bob Gifford
To the Editor:John Curtis’ article on Robert Gifford [“Goodbye, Dr. Gifford,” Fall 1999|Winter 2000] captures many of...
Spring 2000
The first use of penicillin
To the Editor:Your story on John F. Fulton [“Fulton, penicillin and chance,” Fall 1999|Winter 2000] brought back...
Spring 2000
More facts on Fulton
To the Editor:I recently received the Fall 1999|Winter 2000 issue of Yale Medicine. On page 12, there is a picture of...
Spring 2000
Easing children through surgery
To the Editor:This letter is written is response to your article about the work of Zeev Kain. [“Easing children’s minds...
Fall 1999 | Winter 2000
A world revealed
Many thanks for Cathy Shufro’s inspiring profile of neurosurgeon Nozipo Maraire [“The Many Worlds of Nozipo Maraire,”...
Fall 1999 | Winter 2000
Yale science for a broader audience
Notwithstanding the fact that my only Yale degree is an undergraduate one, and that in English, about two years ago I...
Fall 1999 | Winter 2000
Show-stopper
I enjoyed John Curtis’ article on the second-year show [“The Show Must Go On,” Summer 1999], and am sending you the...
Summer 1999
An evolving Yale Medicine
You may notice a few improvements in this issue of Yale Medicine: cleaner typography, more extensive use of color, an...
Spring 1999
A little more candor in class profile
To the Editor:I must comment that the article on the Yale medical school Class of 2002 [First-Year Class Brings More...
Spring 1999
Asthma model was a group effort
To the Editor:Your article on asthma [Mapping the Landscape of Asthma, Winter 1999] explained very nicely the...
Winter 1999
Wake up and smell the herbs
To the Editor:With considerable hope and anticipation, I read your articles on vision research and treatment at Yale (A...
Winter 1999
Peters was vindicated but dismayed by decision
To the Editor: The article on the symposium honoring John P. Peters, M.D., (Fall 1998) omitted the fact that his...
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...
Fall 1998
Early X-rays, continued
To the Editor:Missing from the extended debate on whether Yale or Dartmouth produced the first X-ray after Roentgen...
Fall 1998
Class act
To the Editor:Thank you for the most recent update on the traditional second year class show. It has been almost 30...
Fall 1998
Yale should divest itself of tobacco stocks
To the Editor:It was discouraging to learn of the Yale Corporation’s April decision not to divest its considerable...
Fall 1998
Longevity and talent
To the Editor:Like Helen Langner (A Life of Engagement, Summer 1998), I grew up in Milford and know the Langner family....
Summer 1998
Rule of law, not men
To the Editor: As a graduate of Yale College but not the medical school, I was pleased to begin receiving Yale...
Summer 1998
To tell the truth
To the Editor: I came across your very nice article on the history of radiology at Yale [Medicine's new eyes,...
Summer 1998
You're both right
To the Editor: Because of my mixed medical heritage (B.M.S. Dartmouth Medical School, M.D. Harvard Medical School, and...
Summer 1998
Class agent syndrome
To the Editor: A syndrome described in the December 1997 Atlantic Monthly attracted my gaze. Now I know what causes my...
Winter/Spring 1998
One nation, two views
To the Editor: I spent a month on the same Navajo reservation as Gregory Raskin [Notes From a Navajo Winter, Fall...
Winter/Spring 1998
To the Editor
To the Editor: Gregory Raskin's Notes From a Navajo Winter was terrific because of its common-sense approach to the big...
Winter/Spring 1998
Doctor, see thyself
To the Editor: I enjoyed reading Medicine at the Movies in the Special Report edition of Yale Medicine [Fall 1997]. I...
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