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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Contemplating a Career in Medicine | |
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| A History Major: Why I Wish to Attend Medical School | |
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| An English Major: Coming into Medicine | |
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| A Science and Humanities Major: Listening | |
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| A Pre-Med Major: Tackling the Pre-Med Decision | |
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| A Science and Humanities Major: The Inspiration of Purpose | |
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| Preparing for Medical School | |
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| A Hospital Chief of Staff: The Medical School Decision | |
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| A Premedical Advisor: On Applying to Medical School | |
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| The Chairman of an Admissions Committee: Preparing for Medical School | |
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| The Director of an M.D./Ph.D. Program: The Purpose of M.D./Ph.D. Programs | |
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| A Conscious Evolution in Medical Education | |
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| A Surgical Resident: In Service to Nation and Medicine | |
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| A Medical Resident: Preparing for Medical School--The Four-Year Plan | |
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| A Psychiatrist: Becoming a Psychiatrist | |
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| A Cardiologist: Character Counts | |
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| A Former Medical School Dean: Learning in the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Training to Become a Doctor | |
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| Medical School | |
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| An Overview of Medical School Education | |
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| Beginning Medical School | |
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| Choosing the M.D./Ph.D. Program | |
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| The First Clinical Year | |
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| Teaching Medical Students | |
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| Advising Medical Students | |
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| Residency and Graduate Study | |
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| The Ups and Downs of Residency | |
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| A Resident's Night in the ER | |
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| A Chief Resident Reminisces | |
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| The Inspiration of Medicine and Research | |
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| Balancing Research and Medicine | |
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| Professing Medicine | |
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| Medicine as a Profession | |
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| A Physician's Character | |
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| Faithful Physician | |
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| The Humanities and Medicine | |
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| Medicine as a Calling | |
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| International Health and Human Rights | |
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| Women in Medicine | |
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| Embracing Diversity, Overcoming Adversity | |
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| Civil Rights, Civil Medicine | |
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| Transitions in Medical Life | |
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| Growing Old in Medicine | |
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| Practicing Medicine | |
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| The Future of Internal Medicine | |
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| Coming to Surgery from Many Directions | |
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| Surgery: High Stakes, High Rewards | |
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| Practicing Pediatrics | |
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| A Day in the Life of a Woman in Medicine (The "XX Files") | |
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| The World of Obstetrics and Gynecology | |
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| Practicing Psychiatry | |
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| The Future of Diagnostic Imaging | |
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| The Role of the Pathologist in Clinical Medicine | |
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| Genetics and Medicine | |
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| Practicing in the Health Professions | |
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| Nursing: One Field, Many Arenas | |
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| A Man's Experience in Nursing | |
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| Modern Midwifery | |
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| How I Became a Physician Assistant | |
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| The Art of the Apothecary | |
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| A Lawyer in a Medical Environment | |
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| Applied Ethics in Medicine: Faith and Process | |
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| Mental Health at the Margins of Society | |
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| Three Rules of the Road: A Social Worker's Lessons | |
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| My Life in Medical Social Work | |
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| A Career in Public Health | |
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| Coming to Medicine Through Anthropology | |
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| Lessons from the History of Medicine | |
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| Coming to Medicine Through Health Psychology | |
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| Why I Chose Chiropractic | |
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| Some Musings About Complementary and Alternative Medicine | |
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| Conducting Biomedical Research | |
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| On Being and Becoming a Physician-Scientist | |
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| A Bioethicist Concerned with Research Involving Humans as Subjects | |
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| Conducting Patient-Centered Research | |
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| A Career as Physician-Scientist: Is It Worth the Effort? | |
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| The Path to Laboratory Research | |
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| Medical Informatics: Computers and Patient Care | |
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| The Rewards of a Life in Science | |
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| Becoming a Physician-Executive | |
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| The Role of the Physician-Executive in Health Care Management | |
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| The Role of Physician-Executive in the Pharmaceutical Industry | |
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| Thinking about Medical Writing | |
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| Excerpts from How We Die | |
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| Excerpts from The Exact Location of the Soul | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Index | |
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| Credits | |