Pulse

Briefs

Message on a bottle, bridging health care and architecture, conversation starters.

Designing Duo

A design professor and physician team up to create clothing that’s flattering and comfortable
for women with osteoporosis.

Checking In

Park Nicollet rethinks the clinic experience.

Customer Service

After years of designing hospitals and clinics for staff and equipment, architects are finally focusing on patients.

Quality Rounds

Human Interest

By Jeanne Mettner

A cognitive psychologist helps design patient safety systems that factor in human beings’ fortitude and frailties.

End Notes

The Art of Medicine

By Mary Illions Wilde, M.D.

March 2008 | Table of Contents

Cover Story

Going Green

By Carmen Peota

Hospitals and clinics are embracing sustainable design.

Commentary

Psychiatry Revisited

By Charles E. Dean, M.D.

Have we really made progress in the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders in the last 18 years?

Clinical and Health Affairs

Therapeutic Responses to Natural Environments: Using Gardens to Improve Health Care

By Stephen Mitrione, M.D., M.L.A.

 

Creating Optimal Healing Environments in a Health Care Setting

By Terri Zborowsky, R.N., Ph.D., and Mary Jo Kreitzer, Ph.D., R.N.

 

2007 American College of Physicians Poster Competition Winners

The Effect of Continuous Head-of-Bed Monitoring on Compliance with Semi-Recumbent Positioning in Patients on Mechanical Ventilation

By Laura E. Tilton, M.D., and Mitchell G. Kaye, M.D.

 

Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome of the Central Nervous System and Meningeal Tuberculosis

By Michael Rhodes, M.D.

 

Editor's Note

Space Matters

 

MMA Viewpoint

The Absurdity of Preauthorization

 

MMAA Update

The Benefits of Membership

 

MMA News

Legislature to Grapple with Reform Proposals
MMA Files Joint Amicus Brief
MMA Staff Reaches Out

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