Fall-Winter 2016-2017: Emergency Medicine January 1, 2017 General Emergency Medicine, Marine Medicine, Marin Medical Society Pages Fall-Winter 2016-2017: Emergency MedicineFeature ArticlesEDITORIAL: Emergency: A View from Many AnglesTHE ER: Will It Be There When You Need It?PATIENT EDUCATION: What if Primary Care Was as Easy to Access as the ED?THE KAISER PERMANENTE TELESTROKE PROGRAM: 'Time Is Brain'Special Section: Emergency Care in MarinMARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL: Providing Comprehensive Service to the CommunityKAISER SAN RAFAEL MEDICAL CENTER: Creating a New, State-of-the-Art EDNOVATO COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: World-Class Emergency Care That’s Close to HomeDepartmentsOUT OF THE OFFICE: Experiencing the ED from the ‘Other Side’PUBLIC HEALTH UPDATE: Gun Violence and Public HealthBOOK REVIEW: ‘A Fearless Heart: How The Courage to Be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives’CMA ANNUAL GALA: Dr. Peter Bretan Receives Adarsh S. Mahal, MD Award2016 HOUSE OF DELEGATES: CMA Delegates Discuss Major IssuesMMS NEWS: Letter from the Executive DirectorPRESIDENT’S REPORT: CMA’s Unseen Legislative Battles: AB 533 vs. AB 72CLASSIFIEDS Emergency Medicine: Emergency: A view from many angles; will the ER be there when you need it?; what if primary care was as easy to access as the ED?; the Kaiser Permanente telestroke program. Emergency care in Marin: Marin General Hospital; Kaiser San Rafael; Novato Community Hospital. Departments: Experiencing the ED from the "other side;" gun violence and public health; review of A Fearless Heart by Thupten Jinpa; MMS News: Dr. Peter Bretan award; 2016 House of Delegates; letter from the executive director; president's report. View online PDF here. Related Articles Spring 2012 - Medicine, Gender, Politics Feature articles: Medicine, gender, politics; LGBT care; heart disease in women; HPV vaccine update; Plan B One-Step; interview with Richard Carmona, MD Departments: Emergency department care; retirement planning for physicians; "The Worry Solution"; Kentfield Rehabilitation Hospital; poems by Catharine Clark-Sayles, MD Fall 2014 - Medicine & Politics Medicine & Politics: Medicare in Wonderland; a federal update; a report on Covered California, and the latest on Prop. 46. Departments: options for preventing suicide; electromagnetic hypersensitivity; "Inheritance" book review, and an update on Kentfield Hospital. View PDF online Fall-Winter 2015-16: The Spine Editorial: Spinal Motion Restriction Needs to Be Restricted The Spine: When is spine surgery needed?; minimally invasive spine surgery; percutaneous vertebral augmentation; malingering in chronic pain patients. Special Feature: Opioid Prescribing Guidelines for Marin County Clinicians. Departments: Art of M.C. Escher; Novato Community Hospital update; reflections on Burning Man; 2015 House of Delegates; review of Oliver Sacks' On the Move: A Life. View PDF online Winter 2014 - Alternative Medicine Spring-Summer 2016: Death and Dying Editorial: Death, Dying, the Grim Reaper . . . and Woody Allen Death and Dying: Physician aid in dying (the End of Life Option Act); advance care planning; hospice is good medicine; Kaiser's RESPECT Project; death certificates; CMA end-of-life guidelines and resources. Departments: Tale of a suicide; reviews, Working Stiff and When Breath Becomes Air; public health update; Marin General Hospital update; reports from Leadership Academy and AMA House of Delegates; 6 decades of Marin Medicine. View online PDF here. Winter 2012 - Cancer Feature articles: Cancer; cancer screening; colorectal cancer; Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; Marin Women's Study; prostate cancer screening Department: Emergency department usage; hospital-physician alignments; Marin General Hospital; "Bonhoeffer: Pator, Marty, Prophet"; traveling in Finland