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Preface
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Cardiovascular/International Health

6
Hypertension in Guyana: Lessons from a Health Promotion Program
Amy Cheng, Chris Prabhakar, Varun Kapila, Natasha Sukhai and Jose Monzon
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News and Views

12
In the Literature
Woganee A. Filate, Tim Hanna, Mark A. Mandell, Sharon Morong and Sergio Muraca
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Law and Ethics in Medicine

16
Competency and Mental Illness
Ari Greenwald
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Evidence Based Medicine

20
Antidepressant Medication and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy in the Treatment of Depression
Susanna Fung and Joanna Mansfield
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Medical Murmurs

24
The Benefits of Tea
Althea Barthos
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Prolific Scientist Profiles

26
An Interview with Dr. Philip Seeman, Medical Researcher
Daniel Saul
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Morning Report

28
A Confusing Expression of a Common Disease
Liane Porepa, Dena Hammoudi, Avi Orner and Gillian Booth
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Clinicopathological Correlation

34
How Did Those Snowballs Get into My Shoulder?
Alvin C. Lin
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Quick Diagnosis

39
Elizabeth Berger, Elisa Chan, Roberta Hood and Rory Windrim
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Rehabilitation Medicine

44
Communication Disorders After a Stroke
Jennifer Cupit
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Economics and Health Policy

48
Public/Private Funding Mix - The Top Priority Health Issue for Canada
Kate Law
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International Health

50
Networking in International Health
Rebecca Douglass and Andrew D. Pinto
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Philosophy and Medicine

55
Does Medical Education Blunt Our Moral Reasoning?: A Different Interpretation of the Sherbrooke Moral Development Study
Raymond W. Jang
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Historical Review

58
"When the External Fire Departs" Sleep Theories of Plato and Aristotle and Their Relevance to Modern Sleep Research
Robert Mansfield, Shannon Goddard and Harvey Moldofsky
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Technology Review

63
From PET to PET/CT: Merging Radiology with Nuclear Medicine
Gladwin Hui
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Current Medical Perspectives

68
Michael G. Fehlings, M.D., Ph.D., FRCSC
Nav Persaud
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Medical Education

70
A Comparison of Medical School Programs: University of Toronto vs. Karl Franzens Universität, Graz, Austria
Jonathan Kerr and Antonia Karrer
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73
History of Medicine in Medical Education: An Interview with Dr. Charles Hayter
Louie Chan
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Book Reviews

77
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor
Andrew D. Pinto
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79
Healing Through Prayer: Health Practitioners Tell the Story
Jonathan Kerr
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81
First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 2003: A Student to Student Guide
Robert Adam
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Front cover illustration by Janice Wong Xuan
Department of Biomedical Communications, University of Toronto