Tufts Medicine Magazine

Contents:

• Back in stride
  by Bruce Morgan: New tools at St. Elizabeth's are brightening the outlook for older patients crippled by leg pain.
• Local hero: Anatomy Man
  Anatomy professor Dr. Al Walid El-Bermani.
• The gecko queen
  by Bruce Morgan: Certain small lizards have captured this woman's heart.
• Nantucket doc
  by Jacqueline Mitchell: From falconry to surgery to football, he has found a way to do it all.
• Radiologist in a top hat
  by Bryna O'Sullivan: An early 20th-century French artist/physician documents the cause of his own demise.

Contents:

• Deep Heat
  by Sally Abrahms: After some 50 years, Basil Pruitt Jr.,'57, rules the field of burn surgery through his vision, grit and leadership.
  
• Medicine by flashlight
  by Bruce Morgan: A father and daughter link up in the mountains of Honduras.
• Robodoc
  by Karin Cole, '04: We surgeons could all use a helping hand now and then. Humor.
• Learning curve (Care on Call)
  by Claire Vail: At the Sharewood Clinic, students get a head start on being physicians while serving the local community.
• Just a little revolution
  by Arthur Fournier, '73: Taking a group of medical students to rural Haiti means being ready for anything.

Contents:

• The Good Worms
  by Bruce Morgan: Dr. Joel Weinstock argues that intestinal parasites may be essential to a healthy human immune system.
  
• Local hero: The Builder
  Barbara Talamo, Ph.D., steps down after 11 years as chair of neuroscience, a department she helped to build from scratch.
• Deliverance
  by Joseph Donroe, A98, M.D./M.P.H., '07: This guy became a hero to kids with no future.
• Close encounters of the healing kind
  by Lisa Y. Livshin, Ed.D., and Jacqueline Mitchell: How Tufts is teaching students to be more effective doctors, one patient at a time.
• Deep in the heart
  by Lauro F. Cavazos, Ph.D.: A former dean of the medical school describes growing up on the King Ranch in Texas.