Fall | Winter 2006

• New Hope New Hearts
  Fighting the effects of the anesthesia, Larry Rockwell struggled to open his eyes. His mind raced to recall the events of the night before.
• From Cockpit to Operating Room
  After a particularly exhausting week during his training to be a transplant surgeon, Byers Shaw Jr., MD, could think of only one way to relax. An aviation enthusiast since his teens and a pilot for many years, Dr. Shaw knew that getting off the ground would be the best way to lift his spirits.
• An Isolated Incident
  What if... although it’s been said to be unlikely, what if, a large-scale Avian flu epidemic struck this country, what would be its impact? The consequences could be severe.

• Field of Medicine
  When Bill Thorell finished high school in 1988, he had only one thing on his mind and it wasn’t medicine. “I had no idea what I wanted to do,” Thorell recalls, “except play baseball.
• A Night in Emergency
  Torin Constable is doing what any 11-year-old boy might do on a warm, summer day – climbing the old maple tree in his front yard.