Pulse

Rare Encounter

By Suzy Frisch

Women who met online have challenged researchers to study their condition.

 

Reframing a Conversation 

By Carmen Peota

Nephrologists rethink how to talk to older, sicker patients about dialysis.

 

Too Much Information

By Kim Kiser

With new studies and guidelines coming out by the minute, how can docs keep up with the latest in their field?

 

What Breaks the Bond?

By Kim Kiser

A look at two trends that are chipping away at the physician-patient relationship.

 

Family Medicine’s Fan Club

By Carmen Peota

Medical students are the specialty’s biggest boosters.

 

Book Review

Deciding Factors

Physician authors explore the complexities behind patients’ medical decisions.

By Charles R. Meyer, M.D.

 

End Notes

How Do I Help You Understand?

A poem by Michelle Huyser

 

Table of Contents | December 2011

Cover Story

Doctor, What’s the Story? 

Saving lives and treating disease may be all in a day’s work for physicians. But for many, talking to the media can be unnerving.

By Kate Ledger

 

Perspective

The End of the Medical Deity

Deciding what’s right for a patient is no longer about bringing them around to the doctor’s way of thinking.

By Therese Zink, M.D., M.P.H.
 

Parallel Worlds

A medical student discovers threads of her own story in that of an immigrant patient.

By Fran Lebajo Wu

 

Commentary

Tackling a Taboo

The first step toward alleviating burnout is talking about it.

By Patricia J.Lindholm, M.D.

 

Clinical and Health Affairs

Inaccuracy in Patient Handoffs: Discrepancies between Resident-Generated Reports and the Medical Record

By Michael J. Aylward, M.D., Tyson Rogers, M.S., and Peter G. Duane, M.D.
 

Meeting the Needs of Somali Patients at the End of Life

By Keith M. Swetz, M.D., Abdi A. Jama, M.D., Onelis Quirindongo-Cedeno, M.D., and Lena Hatchett, Ph.D.
 

Whose Best Interest?

By Ryan M. Antiel, M.A., Jon C. Tilburt, M.D., M.P.H., Fredric W. Hafferty, Ph.D., Michael D. Brennan, M.D., And Paul S. Mueller, M.D., M.P.H.
 

Talking to Sexually Abused Children: Tips for Physicians

By Kathleen McDowell, M.A.

 

Editor's Note

Working with Words

 

Viewpoint

Improvement also Applies to Quality Improvement

 

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