Pulse

To Russia, With Love

Inspired by Patch Adams, a Twin Cities physician who shares his last name runs an art gallery to aid Russian orphans.

Worked Up

David L. Parker, M.D., uses his photography skills to document the injustice of child labor.

Lights, Coma, Action

A Mayo neurologist shines the spotlight on how coma is portrayed in the movies.

Double Time

When Tom Parisi had to choose between being a violinist or going to medical school, he decided to do both.

Experimental Theater

Actor-turned-doctor David Feldshuh recently returned to Minnesota to discuss his award-winning play about the Tuskegee syphilis experiment.

Quality Rounds

Performance and Patients

By Scott D. Smith

Patient characteristics such as poverty, age, and ethnicity are not stopping some clinics from achieving good outcomes.

 

 


July 2006 | Table of Contents

Writing Contest

Our third annual writing contest winners mix meters and medicine.

Contest Winners

Baby's Breath

By Marilyn Aschoff Mellor, M.D.

Queen

By Alice Swenson, M.D.

To Be A Better Doctor

By Heather Sieben

 

Perspectives

Thomas Cole and the Voyage of Life

By Charles E. Gessert, M.D., M.P.H.

Four paintings inspire exploration of our own thinking about life and death.

Catching Brains

By Elizabeth A. Reid Holter, M.D.

When you ponder the brain, you look into the territory of the unverifiable.

The Art of Anatomy

By Elaine Challacombe

Long before Body Worlds, physicians and artists depicted anatomy in ways that challenged society’s views of the human body.

Editor's Note

Poetry and Practice

 

MMA Viewpoint

The Importance of Humility in Quality Care

 

MMA News

Minnesota Physicians Help Set AMA Policy
Session Highlights: What Passed, What Didn’t
Bessinger Wins Seat on AMA Council
Mayo AMA-MSS Chapter Honored

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