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FEATURE
ARTICLES
Health Care Reform
Editorial: Inside Health Care: Crisis of Faith?
“To my colleagues, I say it is still a pleasure and privilege to work with you all. But we work inside a lousy system. In fact, it is no system at all.”
By Rick Flinders, MD
Reforming the Health Care Non-System
“A phased start-up, HSF is a restructuring of San Francisco County’s health care safety net, not an insurance product.”
By Clinton Lane, MD
Who Killed Health Care Reform?
“Autopsies are never pretty. But with health care reform dying … it’s time to diagnose the causes of failure.”
By Assemblymember Noreen Evans
The Devil’s in the Details
“Over 100,000 detailers make their way into medical practices daily on behalf of the 13,000 FDA-approved prescription drugs on the market.”
By Ian Hoffman, MD, MPH
Tampering with the Evidence
“The dagger pointed at the heart of our profession … is the influence wielded by the medical-industrial complex in research and education.”
By James Dolan, MD
What’s Really Killing Medicine
“Wanna fix health care in the United States? Then fix the ridiculous way the system pays physicians and other providers.”
By Brien Seeley, MD
What Effect Did Sutter’s Proposed Closure Have
on Physician Practices?
“Hospital closures can be … an opportunity for physicians and other stakeholders to improve health care services.”
By Joni Schmidt, RN, MPH/HSA
DEPARTMENTS
Local Frontiers: EHRs for Community Clinics
“RCHC [is] the largest consortium of community clinics in California
to implement a shared EHR system.”
By Pedro Toledo, JD
Local Frontiers: Medical Ecology
“Many principles underlie the concept of medical ecology, including cooperation, sustainability, diversity, nonmaleficence and resilience. Perhaps most important is the principle of interdependence.”
By JoDean Nicolette, MD
Outside the Office: California Highway Patrol Syndrome
“Maybe patients think like that. Maybe they feel that we physicians are the CHP officers on the road of life.”
By Sanjay Dhar, MD
Medical Arts: SCMA Alliance Art Exhibit
“On Thursday evening, April 24, all local physicians and their families
are invited to Hidden Talents, the second annual art exhibit
sponsored by the SCMA Alliance.”
Current Books: Rapturous Lightning
“In the first chapter of Musicophilia, … Sacks playfully muses about the lucky people who are suddenly overcome with musical passion.”
By Colleen Foy Sterling, MD
SCMA: Working for You: Who Will Care for the Rest of Us?
By SCMA President Brad Drexler, MD
