Dialogue

Atlas of Cosmetic Surgery
edited by Michael S. Kaminer, M.D., assistant clinical professor of dermatology, Jeffrey S. Dover, M.D., associate...

Eliminating Stress, Finding Inner Peace
by Brian L. Weiss, M.D. ’70Hay House (Carlsbad, Calif.) 2003; 100 pagesStress kills, there’s no doubt. Stress eats away...
Medicine’s Brave New World: Bioengineering and the New Genetics
by Margaret O. Hyde and John F. Setaro, M.D., HS ’86, associate professor of medicine21st Century Books (Brookfield,...

Help Me to Heal: A Practical Guidebook for Patients, Visitors, and Caregivers (Essential Tools, Strategies, and Resources for Healthy Hospitalizations and Home Convalescence)
by Bernie S. Siegel, M.D., HS ’61, and Yosaif AugustHay House (Carlsbad, Calif.) 2003; 200 pagesEvery hospitalization,...

At grand rounds, sex columnist comes armed with advice
In the 1960s, Masters and Johnson moved the study of sex away from the anecdotal and into the scientific realm: they...

Stressing the human touch in health care
When Anna Quindlen told a friend with AIDS she was giving a talk at the Yale School of Nursing, the friend said, “Tell...
Changing medicine’s cultural landscape
When I was a child in Washington in the early 1960s, I was present for, if not exactly cognizant of, the reaching of...

From the witness stand, more evidence on malpractice
Your article on the malpractice crisis [“Showdown,” Summer 2003] prompted me to think about the huge challenges our...



