Medical school classmates Gail Allen and Elizabeth Neary
Profile
July 15, 2017 VOL 19 NO 2

Two Pediatricians Share Non-Traditional Paths to Success

In 1996, Quarterly magazine profiled two University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health alumni who, in their quests to balance career and family, took an unconventional step: they shared a pediatrics residency at UW Children’s Hospital (now called the American Family Children’s Hospital).

Michael Fiore snapping a cigarette
Feature Story
July 15, 2017 VOL 19 NO 2

Tobacco Addiction: Tracking America’s Deadliest Killer

Mike Eheler didn’t want to die and leave his wife and four kids without him. Like most smokers, he became addicted as a kid. He had smoked for 23 years, his grandmother had died from lung cancer, and now he could feel the toll on his health — and on his ability to support his family in the way he’d dreamed. It was slipping away, one $7 pack of carcinogens at a time.

Megan Duster and Nasia Safdar
Feature Story
July 15, 2017 VOL 19 NO 2

New Line of Research Takes Guts

“You know, if you’re going to poop anyway, you might as well get paid for it!”