cover story one
Private Equity in Health Care
A Growing Trend
By Randal Shultz JD and Ben Peltier, JD
Now more than ever physician groups and other health care providers are looking for ways to work with private equity funds as an opportunity to grow their practice without selling it. Hospitals and national health care entities are acquiring physician practices at an extraordinary rate. But not all physicians want to sell to these organizations. Many physicians like owning their business and leading the changes occurring in health care.
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The Itasca Project: Improving the First 1,000 Days of Brain Development
By Jakub Tolar, MD.
For the first time since 1918, the average U.S. life expectancy declined for four consecutive years. Just as our lifespan is shortening, so is our healthspan due to the earlier onset of chronic illnesses. Behavior and lifestyle choices contribute significantly to the decline in healthspan, but the risk for diseases—from heart disease and lung disorders to addiction and depression—can be reduced by optimizing brain development in the first 1,000 days of life, beginning at conception..
Pediatrics
Understanding Developmental Trauma: Its lifelong impact on health
By Norm Thibault, PhD, LMFT
There is a very small window in the early life of humans to learn to trust the world around us. The process of bonding to caregivers – attachment - is our most important task during this time, and one that will have a resonating impact throughout our life. The sensitive period for attachment, when our brains are most malleable, begins in pregnancy and continues up to about 24 months post-birth.
interview
The Importance of Medical Associations
Sarah Traxler, MD
President Twin Cities Medical Society
Telehealth
Maximizing Telemedicine Benefits: Establishing work flow integration
By Elizabeth A. Krupinski, PhD
The United States and the world have seen a dramatic increase in the use of telemedicine since the inception of the COVID-19 public health emergency, due in most part to stay at home restrictions for both providers and patients. Prior to this, telemedicine was used in a wide variety of clinical and related patient care applications for at least 30 years, and had been seeing steady but not exponential growth.
MEDICAL EDUCATION
Situational Judgment Testing: Improving Medical School Selection Processes
BY MOJCA REMSKAR, MD, PHD, AND DIMPLE PATEL, MS
Situational Judgment Testing (SJT) is a tool generally recognized as having been invented by the psychologist Alfred J Craddall around 1942 as a way to predict appropriate action by employees in the workplace. Administered through a series of questions, SJT presents several potential solutions to specific workplace scenarios.
