Letter from ... Chicago By George Dunea, MD

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1991

Joe_Doe's_New_Year, BMJ, Feb. 2

Voices_of_the_moon, BMJ, March 16

Orphans, BMJ, June 15

 

1990

Symposium, BMJ, Jan. 6

Boredom, BMJ, Feb. 10

Revolt_of_the_elderly, BMJ, March 17

Abortion_and_animal_rights, BMJ, April 21

Ten_opinions, BMJ, May 7

Slippery_slopes, BMJ, Nov. 10 

Dog_days, BMJ, Nov. 17 

 

1989

Surrogates, BMJ, Jan. 7

Greenhouse_days, BMJ, Jan. 21

Bankers' hours at_Luggnagg, BMJ, Feb. 4

Troops_without_leaders, BMJ, April 22

Relative_values, BMJ, April 29

Looking_for_solutions, BMJ, Sept. 2

Trench_warfare, BMJ, Sept. 9 

Portents_of_change, BMJ, Sept. 23

 

1988

Matters_of_turf, BMJ, Jan. 23 

Stampede, BMJ, Feb. 20 

Nurse_shortages, BMJ, March 26

Distrust, BMJ, April 30 

Good_&_bad_news, BMJ, June 11

Editors_in_distress, BMJ, Aug. 6

Grease_and_Greek, BMJ, Sept. 10

Expanding_medicare, BMJ, Oct. 29

 

1987

Insider_medicine, BMJ, March 7 

Big_brothers_in_droves, BMJ, March 28 

Philosophers and other threats to health, BMJ, May 9

Conflicting_evidence, BMJ, June 6

Families_and_their_doctors, BMJ, July 4

Rabbit_Two, BMJ, Aug. 1

AIDS_update, BMJ, Aug. 22

Pot-pourri, BMJ, Sept. 5

Neuromeanderings, BMJ, Dec. 5

 

1986

Lives_for_votes, BMJ, Feb. 8

Not_an_offer_to_sell, BMJ, March 15 

Seagulls_or_exports, BMJ, April 5

Smurfers'_paradise, BMJ, May 17

Sweet_tooth_maketh_sour_disposition, BMJ, July 12

Hunger, BMJ, Aug. 16

Pigs_in_medicine, BMJ, Sept. 6

Counting_sheep_and_eating_herbs, BMJ, Oct. 18

Typologies, BMJ, Nov. 15

Pounds_of_flesh, BMJ, Nov. 29

 

1985

Christmas_letter, BMJ, Jan. 5

Sense_and_senseless, BMJ, March 9

Hearts_from_monkeys_and_machines, BMJ, April 20

_Cutting_to_the_bone, BMJ, May 25

New_epidemics, BMJ, June 22

Bad_for_business, BMJ, Sept. 14

Experts_galore, BMJ, Oct. 19

Care_and_confidence, BMJ, Nov. 30 

 

1984

Burning_up_the_files, BMJ, Jan. 14 

Consultants_and_consultoids, BMJ, March 24

Stress_in_1984, BMJ, April 21 

Spaz_attacks, BMJ, June 2 

St_Ronald_and_the_dragons, BMJ, June 16

Facts, BMJ, Aug. 4

Centenary, BMJ, Aug. 25

Strangers_at_the_gates, BMJ, Nov. 10 

 

1983

In_black_and_pathless_woods, BMJ, Jan. 8 

Death_over_the_counter, BMJ, Jan. 15 

Hard_times_in_intensive_care, BMJ, Feb. 26 

The_locker_room_and_the_doctors_lounge, BMJ, March 12

Hidden_dangers_everywhere, BMJ, April 2 

Unification_by_catastrophe, BMJ, April 30 

Winter's_tales, BMJ, June 4

Swallowing_the_golden_ball, BMJ, June 18 

Science_and_the_egg, BMJ, Aug 13 

Trifles_soothe_the_mind, BMJ, Sept. 17 

When_to_stop_treatment, BMJ, Oct. 8 

Squeal_rules_in_the_nursery, BMJ, Oct. 22 

Below_the_diaphragm_and_above, BMJ, Nov. 12 

 

1982

Pets_and_pests, BMJ, Jan. 23

Elixirs_of_life, BMJ, Feb. 20 

Infectology_comes_of_age, BMJ, March 13

Inspecting_the_hospitals, BMJ, March 20 

Birthdays_in_January, BMJ, April 3 

Death_by_judiciary_order, BMJ, May 15 

Temples,_tubes,_and_plastic_bags, BMJ, May 29 

Beyond_the_etheric, BMJ, Aug. 7 

A_little_showmanship, BMJ, Aug. 28

The_hamsters_say_no, BMJ, Oct. 9

On_Oak_Street_Beach, BMJ, Oct. 30 

 

1981

Out_of_the_darkness, BMJ, Feb. 21 

Reading_aloud, BMJ, March 7

Virgins_of_Delft, BMJ, April 11 

Compulsion, BMJ, May 2 

Neither_fish_nor_fowl, BMJ, May 30

No_bed_of_roses, BMJ, June 20

Freeing_the_women, BMJ, Aug. 15 

Gang_of_ninety-five, BMJ, Aug. 29 

Competition, BMJ, Nov. 7

Gentle_Mackinac, BMJ, Dec. 12

 

1980

Temples_of_doom, BMJ, Jan. 5

Killing_the golfing_goose, BMJ, March 22

Cadillacs_and_garbage_trucks, BMJ, May 17

Writing_about_dying, BMJ, June 21

Prepaid_health, BMJ, July 5

Paranormal_events, BMJ, Aug. 9

Exotic_diseases_-_sheriffiosis, BMJ, Sept. 6

Hyperactive_judges, BMJ, Oct. 4

Where the bougainvillaea blooms, BMJ, Oct. 18

Year_of_the_Monkey, BMJ, Nov. 22

Clandestine_clippings, BMJ, Dec. 6

 

1979

Chilling_times, BMJ, Jan. 20

Year_of_love, BMJ, Feb. 10

Medical_crises, BMJ, March 3

Healing_by_touching, BMJ, March 24

Commercial_medicine, BMJ, April 21

Persian_letter, BMJ, May 5

Inauspicious_omens, BMJ, May 19

Generic_acrimony, BMJ, July 7

Meetings_in_the_spring, BMJ, July 21

Coming_of_the_stork, BMJ, Oct. 13

Psychiatrists_in_restraints, BMJ, Nov. 3

At_leisure, BMJ, Dec. 8

 

1978

Setback_for_the_Graces, BMJ, Jan. 7

Year_of_the_apricot, BMJ, Jan. 28

Cold_baths_of_Hercules, BMJ, Feb. 25

Red_tape_and_regulations, BMJ, March 18

Uplavici_syndrome, BMJ, April 1

Oblomov's_syndrome, BMJ, June 3

Confusion_orientated_medical_records, BMJ, June 24

Voices_from_the_grave, BMJ, July 29

Continuing_education, BMJ, Sept. 2

Reverse_discrimination, BMJ, Sept. 30

Errors_of_taxidermists, BMJ, Oct. 28

Auctioning_Brenda, BMJ, Dec. 23-30

 

1977

Buttering_opsonins, BMJ, Jan. 29

Year_of_the_Dragon, BMJ, March 5

Return_of_the_hangman, BMJ, April 23

Primary health-care crises, BMJ, May 14

Sweet_and_sour_pills, BMJ, June 11

Shopping-bag_syndrome, BMJ, July 23

The_joy_of_wife_beating, BMJ, Aug. 27

Jet lag_science, BMJ, Sept. 17

Tutamania, BMJ, Nov. 5

War_games, BMJ, Nov. 12

Turning_back_the_hands_of_time, BMJ, Dec. 17

 

1976

Death_with_dignity, BMJ, April 3

New_livers_for_old, BMJ, April 24

Poikilodokia_simplex : a paramarmaladosis, BMJ, May 29

Election_year, BMJ, July 10

Farewell_Atlantic_City, BMJ, Sept. 18

Trichology_needs_help, BMJ, Nov. 13

 

1975

Malpractice_and_the_State_of_the_Nation, BMJ, March 15

Foreign visitors, BMJ, May 17

Confrontations, BMJ, July 19

Pyramids_and_primary_care, BMJ, Sept. 20

Drug_censorship, BMJ, Oct. 4

Of_great_place, BMJ, Nov. 22

Year_of_the_rabbit, BMJ, Dec. 27