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A Magazine for Alumni and Friends of Dartmouth Medical School and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Vol. 30, No. 1 Fall 2005
FEATURES
24 Hours On Call
Photographs by Patrick J. Saine
Text by Laura Stephenson Carter
Hilary Ryder is a second-year resident in internal medicine at Dartmouth Hitchcock. That means, on most rotations, spending every fourth day on call. And that means at least 24 hours of nearly nonstop activity. Dartmouth Medicine shadowed Ryder for a day to show what life is like for a resident.
Beyond Nightingale
By Laura Stephenson Carter
Mary Hitchcock Hospital's nursing school closed its doors 25 years ago. But—as alumni and administrators at DHMC attest—nursing education and practice are thriving today at Hitchcock.
There's no lab test to diagnose clinical depression, no scan to define its ravages. But it's as real as a tumor, as devastating as a stroke. Just how real, how devastating, is evident from this saga of one patient's struggle with seemingly intractable internal demons.
"On call" is a term that is quite literal for resident Hilary Ryder—she spends a lot of time answering pages when she pulls a 24-hour shift. Photographer P.J. Saine followed her every step of the way one recent day . . . and night. See 24 Hours On Call for our photo-feature on residency.
DEPARTMENTS
Debunked malpractice myth
New biomarker for CAD?
Improving sedation safety
Pediatricians screen mothers
Native surgical outcomes
. . . and more.
New physiology chair
IOM panel issues report
Koop papers in the NLM
Ultrasound for Serbia
DeLeo is given a chair
Reviewing Grey's Anatomy
. . . and more.
By Suzanne Beyea, Ph.D., R.N.
By Nancy A. Speck, Ph.D.
By Stanley J. Weinberger III, M.D.
Transforming Medicine Campaign
Ann-Christine Duhaime, M.D.
Charles E. Irwin '69, M.D.
By Stephen Spielberg, M.D., Ph.D.
Denise Linet
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Fall 2005