INPATIENT
Perioperative Tight Glycemic Control: The Challenge of Bariatric Surgery Patients and the Fear of Hypoglycemic Events
By Bellal Joseph, MD; Jeff Genaw, MD; Arthur Carlin, MD; Jack Jordan, MS; Jean Talley, RN, BSN, MSN, APRN; Ilan Rubinfeld, MD, MBA

Decreasing Medication Discrepancies Between Outpatient and Inpatient Care Through the Use of Computerized Pharmacy Data
By Charles S Salemi, MD, MPH; Norvella Singleton, BS

The Southern California Perinatal Patient Safety Project
By Jean Sandoval, RN, MSN; Janice McDonald, RN, MBA; Suzanne Graham, RN, PhD

Patient Safety Executive Walkarounds
By Steven P Feitelberg, MD

OUTPATIENT
Obesity in the Kaiser Permanente Patient Population and Positive Outcomes of Online Weight-Management Programs
By Keith H Bachman, MD; Trina M Histon, PhD; Carol Remmers, MPH

Quality Translations: A Matter of Patient Safety, Service Quality, and Cost Effectiveness.
By Gayle Tang, MSN, RN; Oscar Lanza; Fátima M Rodríguez, MPH; Annie Chang

People Using Technology to Transform Care: The 21st Century Care Innovation Project
By Hannah King, MPH; Ruth Brentari, MHA; Leslie Francis, MBA, MHA; Charles M Kilo, MD, MPH

Systems Approaches to Improve Quality, Performance, and Efficiency in the Care of Older Adults.
By David B Reuben, MD

MyChart—A New Mode of Care Delivery: 2005 Personal Health Link Research Report
By Carl A Serrato, PhD; Sally Retecki, MBA; David E Schmidt, MD

COMMENTARY
A Next Step: Reviewer Feedback on Quality Improvement Publication Guidelines
By Tom Janisse, MD

Doctors and Patients Using an Electronic Health and Medical Record: Research Studies Offer Multiple Views of 21st Century Health Care
By Tom Janisse, MD

Critical Appraisal of Clinical Studies: An Example from Computed Tomography Screening for Lung Cancer.
By Nicholas P Emptage, MAE; Marguerite A Koster, MA, MFT; Joanne E Schottinger, MD; Diana B Petitti, MD, MPH

NARRATIVE ESSAY
Writing and Telling Our Stories to Improve the Art of Medicine
Tom Janisse, MD

Restoring Our Humanity: Our Intention to Heal
Fred Griffin, MD

The Letter of Condolence
Cecilia Runkle, PhD

The Anatomy of Hope
Jerome Groopman, MD

Martin A Shearn, MD
Arthur L Klatsky, MD

Artistic Expression with Dementia
Kate Scannell, MD

COMMENTARY IN NARRATIVE
Intubating Stillborns
Nicholas J Rotondo, MD, ACS, ACOG

El Milagro [The Miracle]
Karen G Stone

NARRATIVE JOURNALISM
The Shared Terrain of Narrative Medicine and Advocacy Journalism
Jon Stewart

Permanente and the Tsunami Relief Efforts—One Year Later—The Volunteers’ Stories: A Journal
Sarah Beekley, MD, Editor

PERSONAL ESSAY
Why do you do, What you do, When you do, What you do
The Voodoo That You Do
Utility Player on the Field of Life
Calvin Weisberger, MD

NARRATIVE PRACTICE
Does Anyone Have a Case? The Balint Group Experience
Cecilia Runkle, PhD; Laura Morgan, MD; Eric Lipsitt, MD

Finding the Meaning in Medicine
Laura Morgan, MD

What Do We Gain? What Do We Lose?
David Moiel, MD

Sometimes the First Step is All You Need
Liza Halley, MA

Healing Through the Written Word
Karen Cangialosi, MFA, MA

STORIES
Please Call Me
The Doctor in Me
Richard S Ellin, MD

Silence
Laura Morgan, MD

1970
Les J Christianson, DO

Doctoring My Doctor
Tom Janisse, MD

POEMS
Patience is a Virtue
Patience with Patients
Laura Morgan, MD

Reflections of a Hospital Worker
Tom Smario

The Wheezing Cherub, Her Earth Grandmama, and OUR LOSSES
Ed Ruden, MD

A Symposium on Meditation, Prayer and Spiritual Healing
Ode to Physicians
Tom Janisse, MD

NARRATIVE MEDICAL HISTORY
The Medicine Wheel: Understanding “Problem” Patients in Primary Care
Louis T Montour, MD, CM, CCFP, ABFP

Stories Tell Us What We Need To Know: Perspective for Ethical Dilemmas—The Story Study
Tom Janisse, MD

Ethnographic Studies in the Principles of Clinical Medicine
In Search of Home: From Home to Homeless to Housing
William L Toffler, MD; Lianne Lin

NARRATIVE CASE STUDY
Adoption
Linda L Hill, MD, MPH

NARRATIVE RESEARCH
MyChart—A New Mode of Care Delivery: 2005 Personal Health Link Research Report
Carl A Serrato, PhD; Sally Retecki, MBA; David E Schmidt, MD