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DEPARTMENTS

OF NOTE [311 KB]
Diabetes research at the South Pole.
Meet the mentors’ mentors.
Expecting teens, unexpected pals.

INVESTIGATIONS [194 KB]
Stroke and cellular suicide.
How to cut a tumor’s lifeline.
A meeting of minds.

98.6 DEGREES [39 KB]
A mall of science: Pitt breaks
ground for what’s probably
its most complex building ever.

ATTENDING [184 KB]
Ross Musgrave can cut the ties,
but not the cord.
What 50 years in medicine hath wrought.

ALUMNI NEWS [195 KB]
Mary Williams Clark was
“a guy like that.”
Remembering Tim Oliver
and Hank Bahnson.

LAST CALL [49 KB]
Whistle while you dissect.

COVER STORY

Saving lives, saving money, and reducing complications: Pitt researchers say that having intensivists
run ICUs could do all three.

FEATURES

Modern-Day Schweitzers [235 KB]
Like the good Dr. Schweitzer, these med students felt an impulse to serve.
BY DOTTIE HORN

A Hospital Is Born [143 KB]
Thanks heavens it was hard to say “no” to Louise Lyle, founder of UPMC Presbyterian.
BY EDWIN KIESTER JR.

A Big Bang [72 KB]
Barry Brenner’s work won’t shut down dialysis centers, but it will slow them down.
BY ERICA LLOYD

ICU: The Episode You Won’t
Want to Miss [75 KB]
Many believe critical care medicine can cost fewer dollars and fewer lives.
COVER STORY BY JASON TOGYER

Cleaning up Blood
The Sum of Its Parts [80 KB]
New tools for critical care.
FOLLOW-UPS BY TRINA WOOD AND KRISTIN OHLSON