Facts and ideas from anywhere

William C. Roberts, MD, Editor in Chief

Topics covered this issue:

•  South Korea
•  North Korea
•  Delicias, Chihuahua, and Mexican cardiology
•  Russia's population
•  Medicare and Social Security insolvency
•  General Motors and health care
•  Coming doctor shortage
•  A living will and Terri Schiavo
•  The death penalty
•  On raising the driving age
•  Automatic external defibrillators on commercial airline carriers
•  New food pyramid
•  Monster Thickburger
•  Obesity and income
•  Body mass indexes of National Football League players
•  Mayo Clinic in Rochester celebrates 50 years of cardiovascular surgery
•  Routine episiotomy
•  Giant baby
•  Changes in plasma volume and hematocrit values when moving from a supine to a standing position
•  Elephants and the University of Alabama football team
•  Glenn Davis (1924-2005)
•  The Four Agreements
•  52 precepts for physicians
•  Five marks of a great leader