Volume
57, Number 3
Summer 2006
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INTERVIEW
SCMA President Phyllis “Jackie” Senter, MD
“I love my patients, and for those that I don’t love as much, I have to keep in mind that this is part of being a doctor. Finally it comes down to finding a connection even with people who are difficult to connect with.”
By Steve Osborn
SPECIAL REPORT
Family Medicine Residency at the Crossroads
“Since Sutter is the only entity bearing the costs of a program that benefits the entire health community, partners from that community should join in sharing at least some portion of the financial burden. This seems only fair.”
By Rick Flinders, MD
FEATURE
ARTICLES
The Victims of War
Editorial: The Victims of War
“Soldiers have always paid the ultimate price, but so have the women and the children and the land, in all wars in all recorded history.”
By John Toton, MD
Land of Enchantment, Land of War
“As I look through the beauty, I notice that the hills are patterned with bomb trenches, like the veins on the back of a swarthy hand. I am dangerously close to the war, so close I can hear the gunfire.”
By Ben Brown, MD
PTSD in Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans
"Thirty-five percent of Iraq war veterans accessed mental health services in the year after returning home; 12% per year were
diagnosed with a mental health problem.”
By Emily Keram, MD
DEPARTMENTS
Local Frontiers
Carotid Stents
“As carotid stenting has evolved, outcomes have reached
equivalence with endarterectomy for high-risk surgical patients.”
By Thomas Dunlap, MD
Outside the Office
Digital Inspiration
“Most people will quickly acknowledge the beauty of a colorful garden display, but few appreciate the incredible intricacy,
complexity, uniqueness, and often sensuousness of each
individual flower.”
By Terry Woodard, MD
Medical Arts
Aftermath
“In this grief and new gratitude came a voice which manifests itself in the poetic art.”
By B. Sue Stephenson, MD
Practical Concerns
Hiring a Billing Company
“Beware: If your billing service makes a Medicare billing mistake, you can still be liable for a substantial fine.”
By CMA Legal Counsel
Sonoma Medicine Survey
Recent Publications by SCMA Members
“For our latest informal survey, we asked SCMA members to send us a list of their publications within the last five years,
including clinical trials, journal articles, and books or book chapters.”
By Steve Osborn
Current Books
Liquid History
“Can we tie together the settlement of Mesopotamia, the
establishment of trade routes across the Mediterranean, the funding of the Slave Trade, the rise of the Industrial Revolution, the Opium Wars in China, and the development of American
Imperialism, all in one 240-page book?”
By Allan Bernstein, MD
SCMA: Working For You
