Spring 2013 - Patient Engagement April 1, 2013 General patient engagement Pages Spring 2013 - Patient EngagementFeature ArticlesCOSTS AND OUTCOMES: Does patient engagement work?TAKING CHARGE: Patient Engagement in Diabetes CareMARIN GENERAL: Reducing Hospital ReadmissionsCOMPAÑERAS PROGRAM: Companions for At-Risk Pregnant WomenINTERVIEW: Public Health Officer Matt Willis, MD, MPHDepartmentsBOOK EXCERPT: The Year THEY Tried To Kill MeCURRENT BOOKS: What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You StrongerMEDICAL HISTORY: Medical Advances of the American Civil WarHOSPITAL/CLINIC UPDATE: A Good Year at Marin General HospitalDISTINGUISHED DOCTORS: In Honor of Dr. Michael SextonPRESIDENT’S REPORT: The State of the Marin Medical SocietyMMS NEWS: Marin Medicine Wins Top AwardClassifieds Feature articles: Patient engagement; diabetes care; reducing hospital readmissions; companions for at-risk pregnant women; interview with Dr. Matt Willis. Departments: The Year THEY Tried To Kill Me; medical advances of the American Civil War; Marin General Hospital update; honoring Dr. Michael Sexton. Related Articles Winter 2013 - Children's Health Feature articles: Children's health; developmental conditions; childhood obesity; pertussis in West Marin; pertussis epidemic; pediatric asthma; child abuse. Departments: Weaving; equestrian sports; CMA House of Delegates; 2012 legislative wrap-up; The Ravenous Brain 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. 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 Summer 2013 - Weight Loss Feature articles: medical weight loss; going soda free; bariatric surgery; bariatric medicine; breastfeeding Departments: acupuncture; hearing loss in children; "Hallucinations" by Oliver Sacks; health reform; Kentfield Rehabilitation Hospital; AMA Spring-Summer 2015: Birth Editorial: Change is in the Air Birth: Cesarean section and long-term child health; birth centers; weight loss and pregnancy Departments: Interview with MMS president Peter Bretan, MD; public health update; community clinics update; eulogy to a well-loved physician assistant. View PDF online Spring 2014 - Elder Care Feature articles: Aging in Marin; interview with Drs. Marjorie Belknap and Filmore Rodich; palliative care; managing delirium; working memory. Departments: CMA governance reform; Tarlac medical mission; Marin General Hospital and Prima Medical Group; career reflections by Dr. Paul Alpert; Novato Community Hospital; "The Wonder of Aging” by Michael Gurian; AMA.