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Imprisoned by Pain Illustration

Four Students, Four Years,
Four Future Physicians

Get to know four students we’ll follow throughout their years here, learning along with them what it’s like to be a medical student today and what it takes to become a physician in the Class of 2012.

By Jeff mortimer

 

A human egg surrounded by sperm

Malevolent Transformations

The progressive ravages of rheumatoid arthritis can be slowed with new therapies, but the unpredictable nature of the disease continues to baffle scientists, as the increased risk of cardiovascular disease widens the mortality gap with the general population.

BY SALLY POBOJEWSKI

James “Jimmy” Crudup

Reimagining Mott

A new Mott Hospital needs to accommodate today’s medicine as well as that of the future, but how should the facility make patients and families feel? From an architect’s initial sweeping curves penciled on flimsy paper, a new, caring, state-of-the-art Mott is being born.

BY james tobin

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