Pulse

Feeling the Pinch

By Kim Kiser

How the recession has affected the state’s hospitals.

 

Losing Independence

By Suzy Frisch

A small, locally owned hospital comes to grips with the fact that it can no longer make it on its own.

 

Rx for Health: A Home

By Trout Lowen

Hospitals address long-term homelessness.

 

End Notes

Metropolitan Medicine

By Anjali Wilcox
Table of Contents | February 2012

Cover Story

Stories from a Struggling Economy

Tseganesh Selameab, M.D., and other physicians on the fallout of the recession.

By Jeanne Mettner

 

Perspective

The Arm that Was Not Broken

A lesson on cost and quality of health care.

By Navneet S. Majhail, M.D., M.S.

 

Commentary

Responding to Tough Times

A University of Minnesota Medical School perspective on the impact of the recession.

By Aaron L. Friedman, M.D.

 

2011 American College of Physicians Poster Competition Winners

 

Clinical and Health Affairs

The Physician’s Role in Health Care Spending

By Janet Silversmith
 

Rescued by the Safety Net: How Government-Sponsored Programs Eased the Pain during the Recession

By Gilbert Gonzales, M.H.A., Heather Dahlen, M.A., and Lynn A. Blewett, Ph.D.
 

Improving the Health of the Homeless: Advice for Physicians 

By Thokozeni Lipato, M.D.
 

Impact of the Recession on Minnesota’s Health Care Market

By Stefan Gildemeister, M.A., Erika Martin, M.P.P., and Anne Krohmer

 

Editor's Note

The Storm’s Aftermath

  

The Physician Advocate

Meet a Member: Patrick Zook, M.D.
States to Determine Essential Benefit Set
MMA Warns against "Pox Parties" 
State Cuts Nonemergency Care for Noncitizens 
State Delays Release of Provider Peer Grouping Report
Medicaid Audits to Begin this Year
Viewpoint: Moving Forward by David Thorson, M.D.

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