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The New Physician

DECEMBER 2008 Volume 57, Number 9

features

PORT ON CALL
The USNS Mercy delivers care to patients and unique training opportunities to medical students. Jesse Wright joins the crew of this floating hospital on its Pacific tour.
by Jesse Wright

HEALTH CARE ELSEWHERE
We always hear how much better and cheaper health care can be outside our borders. But how do these systems work? TNP looks at four models of care different than our own.
by Steve Woo

departments

STAFF NOTE
We’re not alone
by Pete Thomson, Editor

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Schools and the depressed student


MONITOR
Emory forced to confront conflicts of interest. Gender disparity in med student confidence. Enrollment grows again.
by Steve Woo

MED RX
An interviewer speaks
by Daniel V. Schidlow, M.D.

ON THE WARDS
The scars of soldiers
by Jeffrey Jenks

PERSPECTIVES
Fresh ground for academia
by William G. Cloud, M.D.

SIDE EFFECTS
The 2008 Ig Nobel Awards for Improbable Research
by Steve Woo

CASES OF THE MONTH
Bleeding out
by Kaplan Medical

FOCUS - AMSA NEWSLETTER
Lobbying Pennsylvania. National Primary Care Week. Seek an AMSA leadership position.

The New Physician, AMSA's award-winning magazine, covers the social, ethical and political issues facing medical education and health care. The magazine is put together by a professional staff at the national office and published nine times per year.

   
 


ABOUT THE COVER
East Timor-based journalist Jesse Wright captured our cover image on board the Mercy, a U.S. Navy hospital ship.

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