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Family Ties
They're the people who knew you first. For years, they were probably the people who knew you best. But once you're in college, and for a while...
Where Next for Healthcare
Howard M. Spiro '44, M.D. '47, went to medical school partly because his father and grandfather told him to. "And in the 1940s," he...
by Nell Porter-Brown
"You have to be flexible."
As a social epidemiologist, Joseph West, 32, has focused on children, especially those from poor and/or minority communities. "My root...
"I used to have to drag myself out of bed at 6 a.m. and go to work."
Kelly Close spends her workdays handing out financial and marketing advice related to diabetes. The rest of the time she just lives with the...
Exploring New Frontiers
For psychiatrists John R. Stein '91 and his wife, Sara Kulleseid, doctoring abroad seemed like a perfect opportunity to work, play, and travel...
"Teaching yoga is just pure pleasure."
Deborah Cohen views her job, in large part, as front-line preventative care. "A lot of the ailments that take people to the doctor's office...
"Medicine changes you."
Rather than lay out his every future career move, Vivek Murthy has looked for those things in his life that have generated "feelings of...
"It's all shrouded in protective language."
WINNIE LI '00 Age 24, London. Fledgling film producer Winnie Li '00 Photograph by Stu Rosner How do you meet people? "I don't...
The Originals
During a late-night bull session at Winthrop House in 1965, Harvard undergraduates Jeff C. Tarr '66 and Vaughan Morrill '66 dreamed up what was...
by Nell Porter-Brown
The Road to Romance
"I'm at that age where I'm crossing the threshold from high-school-fantasy concepts of romance to the brutal, painful, hopeless world of adult...
by Nell Porter-Brown