• "A Third Year's Promise" by Katrina Leonard, TXACP Student Member, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

• "Unexpected Correspondence" by Brent Lacey, TXACP Student Member, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Medical School

• "It Was a Privilege" by Dan C. Cohen, MD, TAIM Associate Member, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

• "Good Medicine" by Mark S. Hernandez, MD, RN, Pflugerville

• "Billie Belle's Unkind Death" by Michael K. Williams, MD, Austin

• "Empathy for a Man of Few Words" by Marc Shabot, MD, FACP
  Reprinted from The American Journal of Medicine, V118 (9) 1059, Shabot M: "Empathy for a Man of Few Words," copyright 2005 Excerpta Medica Inc.

• "White Fang Delivered" by Roxanne M. Tyroch, MD, FACP

• "White Coat -- Do You Still Wear It?" by Daniel W. Foster, MD, MACP

• "Simulated Patients, Real People" by Karen E. Szauter, MD, FACP

• "Trouble" by Beatriz M. Rodriguez, MD

• "Absalom...Absalom! Would I Had Died Instead of You! [Second Samuel]" by John R. Pettigrove, MD, FACP

• "A Devoted Doctor" by Shirley K. Perry, longtime patient of Stephen Eppstein, MD, FACP, of Fort Worth, in honor of his retirement

• "The Gram Stain" by Arthur M. Fournier, MD

• "Gold Over Tokyo" by Jeffery B. Goudreau, MD, FACP

• "On Being a Doctor" by Roxanne M. Tyroch, MD

• "Writing Well" by Abraham C. Verghese, MD, FACP

• "A Doctor's Journey to the World of Faith" by Fazlur Rahman, MD, FACP

• "Domesticity" by Pulitzer Prize-wining poet Maxine Kumin

• "A Squeeze" by Marc Shabot, MD, FACP

• "On Being Called to Heal: Remarks on Donning the White Coat" by Tiffany Lin, TAIM Student Member, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

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