November 2013 | Volume 96 | Issue 11
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Table of Contents
COVER STORY
Standing up for Staff
Two physicians from rural Minnesota are at the center of a lawsuit that has implications for physicians throughout the nation.
BY KIM KISER
FEATURES
Doctor of…
Physicians aren’t the only ones in health care who go by “doctor.”
BY CARMEN PEOTA
That Darn EHR
Two Minnesota researchers confirm it: Electronic health records are adding to your stress.
BY SUZY FRISCH
The burnout busters
How three Mayo Clinic physicians became experts on physician well-being.
BY HOWARD BELL
CLINICAL AND HEALTH AFFAIRS
Duty to Speak Up in the Health Care Setting: A Professionalism and Ethics Analysis
BY RACHEL J. TOPAZIAN, C. CHRISTOPHER HOOK, M.D., AND PAUL S. MUELLER, M.D., M.P.H.
Contemporary Issues in Medical Professionalism: Challenges and Opportunities
BY DARCY A. REED, M.D., M.P.H., PAUL S. MUELLER, M.D., M.P.H., FREDERIC W. HAFFERTY, PH.D., AND MICHAEL D. BRENNAN, M.D., FRCPI
ICD-10 Is Coming: An Update on Medical Diagnosis and Inpatient Procedure Coding
BY BURKE KEALEY, M.D., AND APRIL HOWIE, CPC, CPMA
Editor's Note
Pulse
Bias in the exam room, face time or screen time, findings from the Rand report on physician satisfaction, the difference a thank you makes
The Physician Advocate
The MMA's monthly report on policy, people and politics
A conversation with Minnesota Community Measurement’s Jim Chase, up close with MMA President Cindy Firkins Smith, M.D., news briefs and more.
PERSPECTIVE
We got broken first
On healing the healers
BY GREGORY A. POLAND, M.D.
Reason for visit: CHECK MEDS
A medical student explores his reaction to an especially difficult patient.
BY BENJAMIN MARSH
END NOTE
A boy named Joey
Traveling north to remember.
BY CHARLES OBERG, M.D., M.P.H.