Volume 56, Number 4
Fall 2005

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SPECIAL REPORT

Healthy Kids: Investing in the Future

“If all the uninsured children in Sonoma County were gathered in one place, they would become the county’s seventh-largest city.”
By Mary Maddux-Gonzalez, MD, Mark Sloan, MD, and Elisabeth Chicoine, PNP

FEATURE ARTICLES

Memory

Editorial: On Remembering

“I am among a generation of aging baby boomers about to enter its seventh decade. Enjoying unprecedented longevity, we are also hip to the prospect of living long enough to forget who we are.”
By Rick Flinders, MD

Wired With Expectation

“We remember, therefore we are. A hot stove will probably be hot again, and a lemon will be sour each time you taste it. From the beginning, natural selection endowed us to cope with recurrence.”
By Brien Seeley, MD

Memory Loss During Menopause

“‘Brain fog’ and poor memory are the complaints of many women approaching or going through menopause.”
By Cheri Quincy, DO

Memory and the Peripheral Brain

“For some physicians, including myself, PDAs have largely replaced medical references and have become an essential part of clinical practice. But if my PDA is essential to my practice, does this suggest I’ve become too dependent on it?”
By Jonathan Choe, MD

DEPARTMENTS

Medical Arts

Top 10 Movies About the Brain

“Because this issue of Sonoma Medicine focuses on memory loss and the brain, I asked some of my favorite ‘brains’ to briefly expound on their favorite movies about the brain and its functions.”
By Colleen Foy-Sterling, MD

International Medicine

Five Years in Botswana

“When I arrived in Botswana in 2000, my plan was to spend a year helping out in the southern African HIV epidemic and then return to ‘normal’ life in the United States as a family physician. My ‘year’ in Botswana completely changed my life and my plans.”
By Lisa Stevens, MD

Local Frontiers

Musings on the Gilda Radner Syndrome

“Somewhere between 4% and 10% of all breast cancers are caused by an inherited genetic anomaly called the hereditary breast-ovarian cancer syndrome or, more commonly, the Gilda Radner syndrome.”
By Brad Drexler, MD

Moving On

A Friend of the Underserved

“Born and raised in Sonoma County, Dr. Rosalyn Lepley has seen many changes in the county and in medicine since her birth here over 70 years ago. She remembers always wanting to be a doctor since she was a little kid.”
By Sacha Lepley

Current Books

A Moment in History

“The novel Saturday, by Ian McEwan, depicts 24 hours in the life of a delightfully non-intellectual English neurosurgeon named Henry Perowne.”
By Colleen Foy-Sterling, MD

Outside the Office

What is the most fun you can have?

“What is the most fun you can have, or have had, or can imagine having in your adult life?”

By Steve Osborn

SCMA: Working for you

Medicare Rate Decision Due in November

“As we await Medicare’s decision, I want to thank all the physicians who supported SCMA’s effort to obtain equitable Medicare reimbursement in Sonoma County.”

By SCMA President Leonard Klay, MD

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