July 2014 | Volume 97 | Issue 7
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Table of Contents
COVER STORIES
Wandering Eyes
The winners of our annual photo contest
Write on!
The winners of our annual writing contest
FEATURES
Premeds and Poetry
An English instructor and physician expose undergraduate students to the relationship betweem art and medicine
BY KIM KISER
Illuminating "Moonlight"
Mayo film tells the real story of a baseball player-tuned-physician
BY JEANNE METTNER
The lure of the arts
How a diversion became a new direction for one medical student.
BY CARMEN PEOTA
CLINICAL AND HEALTH AFFAIRS
Breast Density Legislation: Implications for Patients and Primary Care Providers
BY DEBORAH J. RHODES, M.D., AND AMY LYNN CONNERS, M.D.
Editor's Note
Confessions of a bookaholic
BY CHARLES R. MEYER, M.D.
Pulse
Teens take on tanning through videos; Mayo Clinic to host regional arts and health conference.
BOOK REVIEW
Why doctors play
The story of Boston's Longwood Symphony Orchestra
BY CHARLES R. MEYER, M.D.
The Physician Advocate
The MMA's monthly report on policy, people and politics
New legislative studies and committees; a roundup of health care-related laws, President Cindy Firkins Smith on the art of medicine.
END NOTE
Poetry and medicine
A POEM BY HECTOR I. MICHELENA, M.D.