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A Magazine for Alumni and Friends of Dartmouth Medical School and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center | |
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Table of Contents and Masthead (PDF) 82 KB | |
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Editor's Note by Dana Cook Grossman, and Staff List (HTML) (PDF) 33 KB | |
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FEATURES | |
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Blood Pressure Ensuring a sufficient and safe supply of donated blood is a growing challenge for medicine. A member of the Dartmouth faculty is a national leader in the field. |
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One March Morning The old Vermonter's stoicism made a strong impression on the medical student who was helping to care for him. Would modern medicine be able to repair his twisted, diseased intestine? Or would healing be dependent on the will of the gnarled old farmer? | |
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Exhuming Bonaparte Napoleon Bonaparte died in 1821, but the cause of his demise is still being debated. Experts continue to dig up— figuratively and even literally— facts about his final illness. A retired Dartmouth toxicologist who has long been fascinated with the French leader paints a picture of the puzzling case as if it were a modern clinicopathologic conference. | |
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Life's Final Passage A DMS alumnus shares his thoughts about the end of life —reflections that are pertinent for health-care providers who want to ease their patients' final passage, as well as for individuals who want to be prepared for their own or a loved one's last journey. | |
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Vital Signs (HTML) (PDF) 572 KB (Continued PDF) 68 KB The news in this issue includes word that more medical care is not better (page 3), that the top paper in Science came from a DMS lab (page 6), and that women do just as well as men after angioplasty (page 10). |
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Student Notebook
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Bench to Bedside
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Development
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Grand Rounds
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Blood is all over movie screens these days (for a story on that subject, see page 8), but it's sometimes in short supply in operating theaters. See page 26 for the inside story on blood transfusions. The cover photo, of an archetypal bag of donated blood, is by Steve Allen. | |
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