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59, Number 1
Winter 2008
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FEATURE
ARTICLES
Telemedicine
Editorial: The Electronic Black Bag
“Telemedicine may be the 21st-century version of the house call, and the computer interface may be the modern version of the doctor’s little black bag.”
By Jeff Sugarman, MD
Home Telemedicine
“In an attempt to identify and treat these complications prior to the
need for hospitalization, MedStream elected to shift its core business to management of chronic diseases in the home.”
By Stephen Halpern, MD
Robotic Telemetry for Rural Intensive Care Units
“Our belief is that all patients have the right to the best critical care
available, and we hold that the technology exists to provide consultant expertise anywhere.”
By James Gude, MD
Electronic ICUs
“The eICU is an advanced monitoring system that uses high-speed data transmission tools to network ICUs together so supplemental monitoring and clinical interventions can be performed by critical care nurses and
intensivist physicians from a single location.”
By Tom Shaughnessy, MD
Telemedicine: A Partial Solution to U.S. Health Care Challenges
“Given today’s difficult economic realities in moving the patient to the
correct source of health care, the United States may do better by moving the source to the patient via telemedicine.”
By William F. Kivett, MD, FACS
DEPARTMENTS
Guest Commentary: Bringing Back Balance
“We have a proven strategy to improve equity, reduce health care costs by one-quarter to one-third, and improve the outcomes that patients experience. It’s called primary care.”
By Richard Roberts, MD, JD
Local Frontiers: Vascular Disease: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment
“Vascular disease is a source of significant morbidity and mortality
in our community, resulting in a heavy burden in terms of human
suffering and use of health care resources.”
By Douglas Green, MD, Brendan Bottari, MD, David Fraser, MD, Douglas Jicha, MD, Loie Sauer, MD, Gary Shaw, MD, and
Roy Sumida, MD
Outside the Office: Red Rock Roar
“All three of us are women physicians, all graduates of the
Santa Rosa residency program, and all three of us love to ride our motorcycles. We are on an 1,100 mile journey through northern
Arizona and southern Utah: Red Rock Roar 2007.”
By Stacey Kerr, MD
Practical Concerns: Rebuilding Together: Ramiro’s Story
“As physicians, most of us have felt the frustration of taking care of
a patient where something about their homes was posing a health risk or making their condition worse.”
By Loie Sauer, MD
Current Books: Mark Twain Found
“I was so awed by Twain’s timeless wisdom about human nature
that I wanted to know him better. So I did some digging.”
By Brien A. Seeley, MD
SCMA: Working for You: Happy Birthday!
(and Keep the Change)
“The Zen master describes that even though the frog seems to just “sit there,” doing nothing, in actuality it is perfecting its “frog nature.”
By SCMA President Brad Drexler, MD
