March 2014 | Volume 97 | Issue 3
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Table of Contents
COVER STORY
Ten at the top
Women physicians on their journey into leadership
BY CARMEN PEOTA AND KIM KISER
FEATURES
Necessary or obsolete?
A look at women-only professional organizations
BY MICHELE ST. MARTIN
Breaking through
The women who are leading Minnesota’s medical societies
BY HOWARD BELL
CLINICAL AND HEALTH AFFAIRS
Cigarette Smoking among Women: How Can We Help?
BY SHARON S. ALLEN, M.D., PH.D.
Care of Breast Cancer Survivors after Treatment
BY NICOLE P. SANDHU, M.D., PH.D., FACP
2013 Minnesota Academy of Pediatrics Poster Competition Winners
EDITOR'S NOTE
A woman's place
BY CHARLES R. MEYER, M.D.
PULSE
Women in medicine by the numbers, more women choosing alternative medical care during delivery, good news for older moms, mammography called into question
THE PHYSICIAN ADVOCATE
The MMA's monthly report on policy, people and politics
Sen. Julie Rosen makes drug-related issues her priority, state Supreme Court hears two MMAbacked cases, President Cindy Firkins Smith on why women physicians need to lean in.
COMMENTARY
Midlife and medicine
The time has come to change the way we care for women at midlife.
BY TARA GUSTILO, M.D
END NOTE
The Wish
How hope enables one patient to rise to a very special occasion.
BY RYAN FABRIZIUS, M.D.