Volume 114, Number 10 — October 2018
Cover Story: Cornered (pages 20-25)
Proposed overhaul to Medicare payments for complex patient care visits and same-day office-based procedures could box in Texas physicians. By Joey Berlin
Law: Legal Examination (pages 26-27)
Case tests lawsuit immunity for medical examiners. By Joey Berlin
Legislative Affairs: Advanced Education? (pages 28-31)
Physicians finally see how they fared in the first year of Medicare's MIPS. By Joey Berlin
Public Health: Strategies for Stillbirth (pages 36-39)
New TMA recommendations help physicians with an issue that's difficult medically and emotionally. By Sean Price
Public Health: Getting Ahead of the Flu (pages 42-45)
The 2017-18 season was one of the worst. Can physicians help make the next one better? By Sean Price
Vaccine-preventable Diseases (page 46)
Talk to Patients About: Flu By Sean Price
Profile: A Gentle Role Model (page 48)
Medicine mourns revered cardiologist Mark Hausknecht, MD. By Joey Berlin
Also in This Issue:
Commentary: "Keep Them From Harm and Injustice"? (pages 4-5)
Journal: Effects of Opioids and Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs on Chronic Low Back Pain and Related Measures (page 6)
Rounds: Protect Medicaid Patients' Access to Tests (pages 14-18)
Imaging: Texas Medicine outtakes (page 32)