FEATURES

Allegro e Appassionato
By Laura Stephenson Carter

Dartmouth Medical School's dean keeps a fast and furious pace as he champions DMS both internally and externally. And singing the School's praises is something he does with passion.

Dying Well
By Jennifer Durgin,
Sheila Harvey Tanzer,
and Lynda Hynes Gagne

Slowly but surely, Americans are coming to see death not as a failure on the part of medicine but as a natural part of life. DHMC is leading the way in this movement, as described here. And a pair of related stories recount deaths realized in this manner: one after a life measured in many decades, one after a life measured in hours.

Paper Cuts
By Jennifer Durgin

The pages of peer-reviewed scientific journals may not be very colorful, but they are the lifeblood of an academic medical center. The information in journals is essential to clinicians and researchers alike, and journals are the medium through which discoveries made at Dartmouth are spread across the country and around the world. That's why both librarians and academics are worried about some changes taking place in scientific publishing.

DEPARTMENTS

Editor's Note

Discoveries

 "Stunning" vaccine results
 Telephonic therapy

Vital Signs

 A new number-cruncher
 Radiating the right place

Letters

Grand Rounds

By Constance Brinckerhoff, Ph.D.

Bench to Bedside

By Meredith Curtis

Development

By Katharine Fisher Britton

Faculty Focus

David Nierenberg, M.D

Alumni Album

Thomas Clark, M.D., '01

Point of View

By Thomas A. Colacchio, M.D., and Paul B. Gardent

For the Record

By Stephen Spielberg,
M.D., Ph.D.

Art of Medicine

Joe Wilder, M.D., DC '42

COVER (jpg) (pdf)

DMS Dean Stephen Spielberg, the subject of this issue's cover feature, is adept at the keyboard as well as at orchestrating a dynamic, diverse enterprise. The photo is by Flying Squirrel Graphics.