Pulse

Briefs

Marriage as a health benefit, relative risk for prostate cancer, family as a smoking-cessation aid.

The Family that Eats Together

Research has found that family meals do more than promote healthful eating.

Coming Home

Physicians need to understand how the combat experience can affect the physical and mental health of returning soldiers and their families.

Family Values

By establishing a patient and family advisory council, St. Joseph’s Hospital is putting its money where its mouth is regarding better care. But filling the roster hasn’t been easy.

Book Review

A Lifelong Duty

By Charles R. Meyer, M.D.

Glimpses into the lives of caregivers and the loved ones they tend to.

End Notes

Families

A poem by Sarah Pugh Brandt, M.D.

 

 


December 2007 | Table of Contents

Cover Story

Family Affair

By Cathy Madison

Physicians now more than ever are questioning the wisdom of treating themselves and their family members.

Perspectives

A Conversation about Change

By Caitlin Conboy

A first-year medical student talks with her mother, a family physician with 30 years’ experience, about women and family in medicine.

A Mother’s Story

By Jeannette P. Dippo, R.N., M.S.

A mother pulls back the curtain on her physician-daughter’s life and death.

Quality Rounds

Breathing Easier

Interview by Scott D. Smith

Rochester physician and researcher Barbara Yawn, M.D., weighs in on new guidelines that emphasize asthma control.

Clinical and Health Affairs

Cousin Lizzie’s Tuberculosis Tent

By Richard I. Haddy, M.D., and Theresa B. Haddy, M.D.

 

Varicella Surveillance and Policy in the United States and Minnesota

By Andrew Murray, M.P.H.
 

Editor's Note

The Crowd in the Exam Room

 

MMA News

MMA Calls for Focus on Reform
MMA Resolutions Well-Received by AMA
Children’s Health Bill Hotly Debated
Pay-for-Performance Programs Fall Short

 

 


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