Pulse

Briefs

Too much medicine, land o’ lawsuits, Mayo talks reform, upgrading health literacy.

Is Solo Simpler?

A Coon Rapids obstetrician/gynecologist leaves a big practice and its bureaucracy to strike out on his own.

Guidance Counselors

More and more patients need help finding their way through the health care maze. Here’s how three organizations are making the system less daunting.

Oh Canada!

Canadian-born doctors now practicing in Minnesota discuss whether health care is better—or simpler—on either side of the border.

February 2008 | Table of Contents

Cover Story

A Measured Approach

By Kate Ledger

The goal is quality. The incentive, money. And the yardsticks payers use to measure physicians’ performance are many.

Perspective

Everyone Did their Part, But ...

By Therese Zink, M.D., M.P.H.

How mistrust of the health care system thrust an elderly farmer and his family into its maze.

A Simpler Time

By Harrison H. Farley, M.D.

A surgeon looks back at Minneapolis’ old General.

Clinical and Health Affairs

Complexity Science: Core Concepts and Applications for Medical Practice

By Ashok M. Patel, M.D., Thoralf M. Sundt III, M.D., and Prathiba Varkey, M.D.

 

End Notes

A Simple Truth

By Stephanie Smith, M.D.

The politics of a country in chaos are manifest in the mangled feet of a patient.

Editor's Note

Searching for the Simple

 

MMA Viewpoint

The Value of a Medical Home

 

MMA News

2008 Legislative Preview
Former MMA President Dies
Help Returning Soldiers Get Proper Care
MMA Concerned about New Psych Hospital
Federal Balance Billing Introduced

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