Pulse

Reinventing the ER

Twin Cities facilities try new ways to offer urgent and emergent care.

 

Home Alone

Cold Spring physician Christopher Wenner is the first solo practitioner to obtain health care home certification.

 

Due Process

Could better use of evidence-based guidelines result in fewer malpractice cases?

 

Big and Getting Bigger

What's behind the latest round of health care mergers?

 

Group Effort

A hospital, medical group, and payer work together to keep patients from needing to be rehospitalized.

 

End Notes

We Need to Talk

A doctor's story illustrates the importance of discussing end-of-life wishes.

By J. Lynn Price, M.D.

 

 

 

Table of Contents | February 2011

Cover Story

Personalized Medicine

Without guidance from patients, medicine sustains life at any cost.

By Howard Bell

 

Perspective

Empathy in 10 Minutes: A Medical Oxymoron

All physicians, but especially residents, need more time with patients to assure good care.

By Robert Knopp, M.D.
 

The Best Care

Although we routinely offer the most advanced medical care, we struggle to provide what patients need most.

By Gwen Wagstrom Halaas, M.D.

 

2010 American College of Physicians Poster Competition Winners

 

Clinical and Health Affairs

Payment Reform: The Lynchpin of Health Care Reform

By Julie J. Sonier, M.P.A., and Lynn A. Blewett, Ph.D.
 

Accountable Care Organizations: A Primer

By Janet Silversmith
 

Differences in the Cost of Health Care Provided by Group Practices in Minnesota

By John E. Kralewski, Ph.D., Bryan E. Dowd, Ph.D., and Yi (Wendy) Xu
 

Five Payment Models: The Pros, the Cons, the Potential

By Janet Silversmith on behalf of the MMA Work Group to Advance Health Care Reform

 

Editor's Note

The Next Round for Reform

 

MMA Viewpoint

Reaching the Tipping Point

 

MMA News Now

MMA Finds Significant Errors in Medica's Physician Ratings
MMA Opposes Repeal of  Health Care Reform Law

 

Tracking Reform 

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