Tufts Medicine Magazine

• Girl Power
  by Georgiana Cohen: Tufts medical students help Asian-American teens navigate the challenges of adolescence
• Hard to Swallow
  by Bruce Morgan: When it comes to our drinking water the news is bad and getting worse
• Nothing Left to Lose
  by Randy Christensen, M.D./M.P.H: This graduate has been providing medical care to homeless kids for the past decade

• Home Team
  by Bruce Morgan: Doctors and students from Tufts have taken athletes at a local high school under their wing, and everyone wins
• The Man Who Did the Math
  by Taylor McNeil: John Ioannidis uses statistics to refute much of what our medical journals have to say
• Hope for Ashok
  by Lucy Horton, M.D./M.P.H.: A student helps unravel an epidemic of chronic kidney disease in India

• Common Threads
  by Bruce Morgan: Biomedical engineer David Kaplan has become the world's leading evangelist for the medical uses of silk
• Pill After Pill
  by Taylor McNeil: In a bold new book, psychiatrist Daniel Carlat writes a prescription for his field
• Open Wide
  by Jacqueline Mitchell: Thomas Carroll brings his love of music and singing to his practice as an otolaryngoligist

• From the Ground Up
  by Bruce Morgan: Seven enterprising students are working to create a medical rotation site in Haiti
• The Goodness of the Fit
  by Bruce Morgan: Researcher Katya Heldwein is determined to figure out precisely how the herpes virus enters a human cell to do its damage

• Medical Ethicist
  by Bruce Morgan: University Chaplin David O'Leary
• The Coding-and-Billing Spitfire
  by Bruce Morgan: After years of hopping from one passion to the next, Dreama Sloan-Kelly has found her niche
• Northern Exposure
  by Bruce Morgan: A bold partnership between Tufts and Maine Medical Center seeks to relieve the doctor shortage in rural portions of New England's largest state
• My Unforgettable Patient
  by Rachel Salguero Kowalsky, M.D./M.P.H. '03: How can you stay calm when the patient's your own daughter?

Contents:

• The Price of Beauty
  by Kate Turk '11: When it comes to specialty picks, why does cosmetology rule?
• Springboard
  by Jacqueline Mitchell: A new master's program gives students a leg up in medical school.
• Dr. Google
  by Lisa Neal Gualtieri and Janey Pratt, '93: What your patients are doing online, and why you should care.
• Three in the World
  by Jacqueline Mitchell and Bruce Morgan: Our graduates lend their talents in Bangladesh, Cameroon and Peru.
• My Unforgettable Patient
  by Teresa Schraeder, '99: Despite long odds, this young man survived.

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.