Berks County Medical Society Medical Record Winter 2021 - 3

Medical record
BERKS COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY

A Quarterly Publication

To provide news and opinion to support
professional growth and personal connections within
the Berks County Medical Society community.

Berks County Medical Society
MEDICAL RECORD
Lucy J. Cairns, MD
Editor

Editorial Board

D. Michael Baxter, MD
Jillian Ventuzelo, DO
T. J. Huckleberry, MPA
Raymond C. Truex Jr., MD, FAANS, FACS

Contents

Features

10

WINTER 2021

Collateral
Damage Indirect Effects
of the Pandemic

9	 A Call for the Creation of a Berks 	
	 County Department of Health
16	 SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine is Here!

Berks County Medical Society Officers
Michael L. Haas, MD
President
Jillian Ventuzelo, DO
President Elect
Kristen Sandel, MD
Chair, Executive Council
Ankit Shah, MD
Treasurer
Jin Xu, MD
Secretary
Gregory T. Wilson, DO
Immediate Past President
T. J. Huckleberry, MPA
Executive Director

Berks County Medical Society
Phone: 610.375.6555 | Fax: 610.375.6535
Email: info@berkscms.org
www.berkscms.org

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Berks County Medical Society.
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The Berks County Medical Record (ISSN #0736-7333) is published four
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18	 More Humanities in Medical
	 Education
21 	 Telling Our Stories: Narrative Writing 	
28	
	 as a Healing Art
	
22	 Pat Sharma, MD Retires After
	
	 50+ Year Medical Career
30	
23 	 Interview with Lucy J. Cairns, MD, 	
31	
	'Retired'
	
26	 Delusional Parasitosis in a Patient 	
	 with Dementia-related Psychosis

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Summer 2021 Berks County 	
Medical Society's Pat Sharma 	
President's Scholarship
Member in the News
The Foundation of the Pennsylvania
Medical Society

In Every Issue

	

4	 President's Message

	

6 	 Editor's Comments

	
7 	 Compass Points
				

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