Dartmouth Medicine Magazine

A Magazine for Alumni and Friends of Dartmouth Medical School and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Vol. 24, No. 4 Summer 2000

Table of Contents and Masthead (PDF) 76 KB

Editor's Note by Dana Cook Grossman, and Staff List (HTML) (PDF) 17 KB

FEATURES

Good Will (HTML) (PDF) 449 KB
By Donald Kollisch, M.D. (email)

The old farmer was trying to be the best patient he could. The doctor was trying to be the best caregiver he could. The message, in this short story by a DMS faculty member, is that treating the disease isn't all there is to medicine.

What Makes My Baby Blue? (HTML) (PDF) 252 KB Continued pdf 44 KB
By Roger P. Smith, Ph.D.

That popular-song lament is also a question that's puzzled epidemiologists for the past half-century. Was it really rural well-water that made hundreds of infants turn blue? Why did the number of cases suddenly decline? As this saga by a member of the DMS faculty indicates, the annals of science will always, by their very nature, be incomplete.

Scrambled Sounds
(HTML) (PDF) 340 KB By Laura Stephenson Carter

Central auditory processing disorder is to the ear as dyslexia is to the eye. Just as dyslexics can see the words, but some letters get jumbled in their brains, those with CAPD can hear, but their brains can't process some sounds. The disorder is often misdiagnosed, but that will change if DHMC's Frank Musiek has his way.

Eye-Concept Art (HTML) (PDF) 258 KB
By Anita Dennis

Patrick Saine, an ophthalmic photographer at DHMC, turns photographs of retinas into works of art that have been attracting national attention. (website)

DEPARTMENTS

Vital Signs (HTML) (PDF) 636 KB

The news this issue ranges from the familiar (the annual tradition of Match Day) to the offbeat (a study that uses tattooed students as research subjects).

Student Perspective (HTML) (PDF) 33 KB
"Helping in the outdoors"
By Timothy Burdick (email)

Letters (HTML) (PDF) 60 KB Continued pdf 44 KB

Faculty Matters (HTML) (PDF) 58 KB
"Following the crowd"
By John D. Birkmeyer, M.D. (email)

Development (HTML) (PDF) 139 KB

"Insights from history"
Jonathan Weisberg

Alumni Album (HTML) (PDF) 72 KB
"Geoffrey Birchard, Ph.D. '86: Devoted to dragons"

Faculty Focus (HTML) (PDF) 51 KB
"Lisabeth Maloney: Putting medicine in perspective"

Bench to Bedside (HTML) (PDF) 53 KB
"A new look at diabetes"
By Paul J. Beisswenger, M.D.

Viewpoint (HTML) (PDF) 89 KB
"Eliminating errors"
By Joseph R. Wilder, M.D. (website)

From the Dean (HTML) (PDF) 59 KB
"Mapping the future"
By John C. Baldwin, M.D.

COVER (JPG) (PDF) 195 KB
These kaleidoscopic works of art are a by-product of Patrick Saine's work as a certified retinal angiographer. The accompanying story, which starts on page 38, describes how he stumbled onto a process that has brought him much creative fulfillment.

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