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A Magazine for Alumni and Friends of Dartmouth Medical School and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Vol. 34, No. 2 • Winter 2009
FEATURES
Toxic pollution from smallscale gold-mining. Indiscriminate use of an antibiotic that can lead to hearing loss. Scarce or nonexistent healthcare resources. Those are a few of the problems that are drawing more and more people with Dartmouth ties down to Nicaragua.
"The most unspeakable terror"
By By Emily Baumrin, William
Corbett, Amita Kulkarni,
and Lee A. Witters, M.D.
In the 1800s, childbirth was often fraught with fear and death rather than joy. But growing knowledge about the cause of puerperal fever—also known as childbed fever—eventually brought the epidemic of maternal and infant mortality under control.
The Longest Run
By Jonathan A. Stableford
When a fit-as-a-fiddle marathoner collides with a near-fatal bout of pneumonia, he finds that getting back on his feet takes far longer than he had imagined. In fact, his recovery calls for more fortitude, emotionally and physically, than a grueling road race.
COVER
These hard-of-hearing children, plus thousands of other Nicaraguans facing health challenges, are a bit better off thanks to the efforts of a web of Dartmouth-related initiatives. The associated feature is titled "An Uphill Battle". The photo was taken by Dartmouth Medicine's managing editor, Amos Esty.
OUR MISSION
Dartmouth Medicine seeks to convey the breadth and depth of the education, research, and clinical activities of DMS and DHMC; to serve as a publication of historical record; to stimulate thought and discussion on issues in medicine and medical education; and to reflect the range of opinions and activities among Dartmouth medical students, faculty, and alumni. Abbreviations used in these pages include DMS (Dartmouth Medical School), DHMC (Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center), MHMH (Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital), and DC (Dartmouth College). The opinions of contributors do not necessarily reflect those of DMS or DHMC.
STAFF & CONTRIBUTORS
DEPARTMENTS
Editor's Note
"Table talk"
By Dana Cook Grossman
Discoveries
- Study shows benefits from palliative care
- A million overdiagnosed—and counting
- Anticancer strategy is stuff of legend
- Researcher builds a better microarray
- Studying whether girth affects birth
- Does child CPR need to be revised?
- Arsenic might be a factor in H1N1 severity
- Research briefs
Vital Signs
- New chair of anesthesiology finds that, yes, you can go home again
- Inauguration was colorful, solemn, festive, diverse
- From 'round the girdled Earth they've come
- Feds put dollars behind the push for quality
- Putting some numbers into the kids-food equation
- Clinical Observation
- A high-tech solution to drug counterfeiting
- Investigator Insight
- Plastic surgeon, after 40 years as a "fixer," gains emeritus status
- CHaD events were "super" to the "extreme"
- Media Mentions: DMS and DHMC in the news
- Worthy of Note: Honors, awards, appointments, etc.
- Then & Now
- News Briefs
Grand Rounds
"A call for closure"
By Ira Byock, M.D.
Transforming Medicine Campaign
"Celebrating our donors"
By Kate Villars
Faculty Focus
"Alan Eastman, Ph.D.: Lab lover"
By Amos Esty
Alumni Album
"Robert Liberman, M.D., '60: Agent of change"—By Jennifer Durgin
Student Notebook
"The old college try"
By Rebecca E. Glover
Point of View
"Baby bumps"
By Meg Villeneuve
Art of Medicine
"Meghan"
By Chris Demarest
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