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Letter from ... Chicago By George Dunea, MD
The articles listed below are from the column in the British Medical Journal, Letter from...Chicago . They were written by George Dunea, MD, President and CEO of the Hektoen Institute of Medicine. Click on each link to view the full text of the article.
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1991
- BMJ1991,_Feb._2_-_Joe_Doe's_New_Year
- BMJ1991,_March_16_-_Voices_of_the_moon
- BMJ1991,_June_15_-_Orphans
1990
- BMJ1990,_Jan._6_-_Symposium
- BMJ1990,_Feb._10_-_Boredom
- BMJ1990,_March_17_-_Revolt_of_the_elderly
- BMJ1990,_April_21_-_Abortion_and_animal_rights
- BMJ1990,_May_7_-_Ten_opinions
- BMJ1990,_Nov._10_-_Slippery_slopes
- BMJ1990,_Nov._17_-_Dog_days
1989
- BMJ1989,_Jan._7_-_Surrogates
- BMJ1989,_Jan._21_-_Greenhouse_days
- BMJ1989,_Feb._4_-_Bankers' hours at_Luggnagg
- BMJ1989,_April_22_-_Troops_without_leaders
- BMJ1989,_April_29_-_Relative_values
- BMJ1989,_Sept._2_-_Looking_for_solutions
- BMJ1989,_Sept._9_-_Trench_warfare
- BMJ1989,_Sept._23_-_Portents_of_change
1988
- BMJ1988,_Jan._23_-_Matters_of_turf
- BMJ1988,_Feb._20_-_Stampede
- BMJ1988,_March_26_-_Nurse_shortages
- BMJ1988,_April_30_-_Distrust
- BMJ1988,_June_11_-_Good_&_bad_news
- BMJ1988,_Aug._6_-_Editors_in_distress
- BMJ1988,_Sept._10_-_Grease_and_Greek
- BMJ1988,_Oct._29_-_Expanding_medicare
1987
- BMJ1987,_March_7_-_Insider_medicine
- BMJ1987,_March_28_-_Big_brothers_in_droves
- BMJ1987,_May_9_-_Philosophers and other threats to health
- BMJ1987,_June_6_-_Conflicting_evidence
- BMJ1987,_July_4_-_Families_and_their_doctors
- BMJ1987,_Aug._1_-_Rabbit_Two
- BMJ1987,_Aug._22_-_AIDS_update
- BMJ1987,_Sept._5_-_Pot-pourri
- BMJ1987,_Dec._5_-_Neuromeanderings
1986
- BMJ1986,_Feb._8_-_Lives_for_votes
- BMJ1986,_March_15_-_Not_an_offer_to_sell
- BMJ1986,_April_5_-_Seagulls_or_exports
- BMJ1986,_May_17_-_Smurfers'_paradise
- BMJ1986,_July_12_-_Sweet_tooth_maketh_sour_disposition
- BMJ1986,_Aug._16_-_Hunger
- BMJ1986,_Sept._6_-_Pigs_in_medicine
- BMJ1986,_Oct._18_-_Counting_sheep_and_eating_herbs
- BMJ1986,_Nov._15_-_Typologies
- BMJ1986,_Nov._29_-_Pounds_of_flesh
1985
- BMJ1985,_Jan._5_-_Christmas_letter
- BMJ1985,_March_9_-_Sense_and_senseless
- BMJ1985,_April_20_-_Hearts_from_monkeys_and_machines
- BMJ1985,_May_25_-_Cutting_to_the_bone
- BMJ1985,_June_22_-_New_epidemics
- BMJ1985,_Sept._14_-_Bad_for_business
- BMJ1985,_Oct._19_-_Experts_galore
- BMJ1985,_Nov._30_-_Care_and_confidence
1984
- BMJ1984,_Jan._14_-_Burning_up_the_files
- BMJ1984,_March_24_-_Consultants_and_consultoids
- BMJ1984,_April_21_-_Stress_in_1984
- BMJ1984,_June_2_-_Spaz_attacks
- BMJ1984,_June_16_-_St_Ronald_and_the_dragons
- BMJ1984,_Aug._4_-_Facts
- BMJ1984,_Aug._25_-_Centenary
- BMJ1984,_Nov._10_-_Strangers_at_the_gates
1983
- BMJ1983,_Jan._8_-_In_black_and_pathless_woods
- BMJ1983,_Jan._15_-_Death_over_the_counter
- BMJ1983,_Feb._26_-_Hard_times_in_intensive_care
- BMJ1983,_March_12_-_The_locker_room_and_the_doctors_lounge
- BMJ1983,_April_2_-_Hidden_dangers_everywhere
- BMJ1983,_April_30_-_Unification_by_catastrophe
- BMJ1983,_June_4_-_Winter's_tales
- BMJ1983,_June_18_-_Swallowing_the_golden_ball
- BMJ1983,_Aug_13_-_Science_and_the_egg
- BMJ1983,_Sept._17_-_Trifles_soothe_the_mind
- BMJ1983,_Oct._8_-_When_to_stop_treatment
- BMJ1983,_Oct._22_-_Squeal_rules_in_the_nursery
- BMJ1983,_Nov._12_-_Below_the_diaphragm_and_above
1982
- BMJ1982,_Jan._23_-_Pets_and_pests
- BMJ1982,_Feb._20_-_Elixirs_of_life
- BMJ1982,_March_13_-_Infectology_comes_of_age
- BMJ1982,_March_20_-_Inspecting_the_hospitals
- BMJ1982,_April_3_-_Birthdays_in_January
- BMJ1982,_May_15_-_Death_by_judiciary_order
- BMJ1982,_May_29_-_Temples,_tubes,_and_plastic_bags
- BMJ1982,_Aug._7_-_Beyond_the_etheric
- BMJ1982,_Aug._28-Sept._4_-_A_little_showmanship
- BMJ1982,_Oct._9_-_The_hamsters_say_no
- BMJ1982,_Oct._30_-_On_Oak_Street_Beach
1981
- BMJ1981,_Feb._21_-_Out_of_the_darkness
- BMJ1981,_March_7_-_Reading_aloud
- BMJ1981,_April_11_-_Virgins_of_Delft
- BMJ1981,_May_2_-_Compulsion
- BMJ1981,_May_30_-_Neither_fish_nor_fowl
- BMJ1981,_June_20_-_No_bed_of_roses
- BMJ1981,_Aug._15_-_Freeing_the_women
- BMJ1981,_Aug._29_-_Gang_of_ninety-five
- BMJ1981,_Nov._7_-_Competition
- BMJ1981,_Dec._12_-_Gentle_Mackinac
1980
- BMJ1980,_Jan._5_-_Temples_of_doom
- BMJ1980,_March_22_-_Killing_the golfing_goose
- BMJ1980,_May_17_-_Cadillacs_and_garbage_trucks
- BMJ1980,_June_21_-_Writing_about_dying
- BMJ1980,_July_5_-_Prepaid_health
- BMJ1980,_Aug._9_-_Paranormal_events
- BMJ1980,_Sept._6_-_Exotic_diseases_-_sheriffiosis
- BMJ1980,_Oct._4_-_Hyperactive_judges
- BMJ1980,_Oct._18_-_Where the bougainvillaea blooms
- BMJ1980,_Nov._22_-_Year_of_the_Monkey
- BMJ1980,_Dec._6_-_Clandestine_clippings
1979
- BMJ1979,_Jan._20_-_Chilling_times
- BMJ1979,_Feb._10_-_Year_of_love
- BMJ1979,_March_3_-_Medical_crises
- BMJ1979,_March_24_-_Healing_by_touching
- BMJ1979,_April_21_-_Commercial_medicine
- BMJ1979,_May_5_-_Persian_letter
- BMJ1979,_May_19_-_Inauspicious_omens
- BMJ1979,_July_7_-_Generic_acrimony
- BMJ1979,_July_21_-_Meetings_in_the_spring
- BMJ1979,_Oct._13_-_Coming_of_the_stork
- BMJ1979,_Nov._3_-_Psychiatrists_in_restraints
- BMJ1979,_Dec._8_-_At_leisure
1978
- BMJ1978,_Jan._7_-_Setback_for_the_Graces
- BMJ1978,_Jan._28_-_Year_of_the_apricot
- BMJ1978,_Feb._25_-_Cold_baths_of_Hercules
- BMJ1978,_March 18_-_Red_tape_and_regulations
- BMJ1978,_April_1_-_Uplavici_syndrome
- BMJ1978,_June_3_-_Oblomov's_syndrome
- BMJ1978,_June_24_-_Confusion_orientated_medical_records
- BMJ1978,_July_29_-_Voices_from_the_grave
- BMJ1978,_Sept._2_-_Continuing_education
- BMJ1978,_Sept._30_-_Reverse_discrimination
- BMJ1978,_Oct._28_-_Errors_of_taxidermists
- BMJ1978,_Dec._23-30_-_Auctioning_Brenda
1977
- BMJ1977,_Jan._29_-_Buttering_opsonins
- BMJ1977,_March_5_-_Year_of_the_Dragon
- BMJ1977,_April_23_-_Return_of_the_hangman
- BMJ1977,_May_14_-_Primary health-care crises
- BMJ1977,_June_11_-_Sweet_and_sour_pills
- BMJ1977,_July_23_-_Shopping-bag_syndrome
- BMJ1977,_Aug._27_-_The_joy_of_wife_beating
- BMJ1977,_Sept._17_-_Jet lag_science
- BMJ1977,_Nov._5_-_Tutamania
- BMJ1977,_Nov._12_-_War_games
- BMJ1977,_Dec._17_-_Turning_back_the_hands_of_time
1976
- BMJ1976,_April_3_-_Death_with_dignity
- BMJ1976,_April_24_-_New_livers_for_old
- BMJ1976,_May_29_-_Poikilodokia_simplex : a paramarmaladosis
- BMJ1976,_July_10_-_Election_year
- BMJ1976,_Sept._18_-_Farewell_Atlantic_City
- BMJ1976,_Nov._13_-_Trichology_needs_help