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Sunday, May 27th, 2012
8:08 pm - NEJM: May 24, 2012 Vol. 366 No. 21

allyson13
From an Ethics of Rationing to an Ethics of Waste Avoidance

Beyond the “R Word”? Medicine's New Frugality

Performance Improvement in Health Care — Seizing the Moment

Sharing the Care to Improve Access to Primary Care

Meconium-like Ileus in Cystic Fibrosis

Aquagenic Wrinkling of Palms in Cystic Fibrosis

(Opinions?)

Sunday, May 20th, 2012
5:20 pm - NEJM: May 17, 2012 Vol. 366 No. 20

allyson13
200th Anniversary Article: The Evolving Primary Care Physician

Mental Illness — Comprehensive Evaluation or Checklist?

Grief, Depression, and the DSM-5

Nevus Sebaceous

“Half-Half” Blisters

(5 opinions given | Opinions?)

Sunday, May 13th, 2012
5:59 pm - NEJM: May 10, 2012 Vol. 366 No. 19

allyson13
HIV–HBV Coinfection — A Global Challenge

Statins: Is It Really Time to Reassess Benefits and Risks?

Implications for ACOs of Variations in Spending Growth

An Electrocardiographic Sine Wave in Hyperkalemia

Vertebra Plana with Spontaneous Healing

(Opinions?)

Sunday, May 6th, 2012
4:42 pm - NEJM: May 3, 2012 Vol. 366 No. 18

allyson13
Is Medicaid Constitutional?

200th Anniversary Article: Two Hundred Years of Surgery

Lymphangioma Circumscriptum

Eschar Formation from Testosterone Patch

(Opinions?)

Sunday, April 29th, 2012
5:51 pm - NEJM: April 26, 2012 Vol. 366 No. 17

allyson13
Making the Best of Hospital Pay for Performance

Controlling Health Care Spending — The Massachusetts Experiment

Financing Graduate Medical Education — Mounting Pressure for Reform

Torsion of Undescended Testis

Pneumoperitoneum

(Opinions?)

Sunday, April 22nd, 2012
4:26 pm - NEJM: April 19, 2012 Vol. 366 No. 16

allyson13
200th Anniversary Article: The Evolving Roles of the Medical Journal

Supreme Court Arguments on the ACA — A Clash of Two World Views

Registered Nurse Labor Supply and the Recession — Are We in a Bubble?

(Opinions?)

Sunday, April 15th, 2012
5:02 pm - NEJM: April 12, 2012 Vol. 366 No. 15

allyson13
Warning: Contraceptive Drugs May Cause Political Headaches

Medicare's Readmissions-Reduction Program — A Positive Alternative

Thirty-Day Readmissions — Truth and Consequences

Suing States over Threatened Access to Care — The Douglas Decision

Leonine Facies: Lepromatous Leprosy

Achalasia

(Opinions?)

Sunday, April 8th, 2012
9:17 pm - NEJM: April 5, 2012 Vol. 366 No. 14

allyson13
Building a Better Physician — The Case for the New MCAT

Removing Legal Barriers to High-Quality Care for HIV-Infected Patients

200th Anniversary Article: What We Don't See

Digital Mucous Cyst

Left Main Coronary Artery Thrombosis

The Journal's App for the iPad

(Opinions?)

Sunday, April 1st, 2012
5:49 pm - NEJM: March 29, 2012 Vol. 366 No. 13

allyson13
The Joint Commission's New Tobacco-Cessation Measures — Will Hospitals Do the Right Thing?

Medicare Advantage — Lessons for Medicare's Future

The Medicare Advantage Success Story — Looking beyond the Cost Difference

The Severability of the Individual Mandate

Fordyce's Angiokeratomas

Intestinal Infestation with Ancylostoma ceylanicum

(Opinions?)

Sunday, March 25th, 2012
4:22 pm - NEJM: March 22, 2012 Vol. 366 No. 12

allyson13
Industry Support of CME — Are We at the Tipping Point?

Directions for Bipartisan Medicare Reform

Slower Growth in Medicare Spending — Is This the New Normal?

The Potential for Cost Savings through Bundled Episode Payments

Kerion Celsi

Kayser–Fleischer Rings in Wilson's Disease

(Opinions?)

Sunday, March 18th, 2012
5:19 pm - NEJM: March 15, 2012 Vol. 366 No. 11

allyson13
200th Anniversary Article: Major Trends in the U.S. Health Economy since 1950

Supreme Court Review of the Health Care Reform

Shattuck Lecture: A Successful and Sustainable Health System — How to Get There from Here

Barium Aspiration

Westermark Sign in Pulmonary Embolism

(Opinions?)

Sunday, March 11th, 2012
4:14 pm - NEJM: March 8, 2012 Vol. 366 No. 10

allyson13
Here We Go Again — Another Failure of Postmarketing Device Surveillance

Postmarketing Surveillance of Medical Devices — Filling in the Gaps

Why Now Is Not the Time for Premium Support

The Wyden–Ryan Proposal — A Foundation for Realistic Medicare Reform

Ectopic Thyroid Gland

Lingual Thyroid

(Opinions?)

Sunday, March 4th, 2012
7:15 pm - NEJM: March 1, 2012 Vol. 366 No. 9

allyson13
Goal-Oriented Patient Care — An Alternative Health Outcomes Paradigm

Shared Decision Making — The Pinnacle of Patient-Centered Care

Defining “Patient-Centered Medicine”

200th Anniversary Article: A Patient with Asthma Seeks Medical Advice in 1828, 1928, and 2012

Eruptive Xanthoma

Hemotympanum

Regulation of Medical Devices in the United States and European Union

(Opinions?)

Sunday, February 26th, 2012
4:56 pm - NEJM: February 23, 2012 Vol. 366 No. 8

allyson13
The Value of Federalism in Defining Essential Health Benefits

Fair Enough? Inviting Inequities in State Health

Sigmoid Perforation in Association with Colonoscopy

Spider Angioma

(Opinions?)

Sunday, February 19th, 2012
3:08 pm - NEJM: February 16, 2012 Vol. 366 No. 7

allyson13
200th Anniversary Article: Patients and Doctors — The Evolution of a Relationship

What We Talk about When We Talk about Health Care Costs

Penny Wise, Pound Foolish? Coverage Limits on Immunosuppression after Kidney Transplantation

Vernal Keratoconjunctivitis

Lingual Raynaud's Phenomenon

(Opinions?)

Sunday, February 12th, 2012
5:53 pm - NEJM: February 9, 2012 Vol. 366 No. 6

allyson13
All Heat, No Light — The States' Medicaid Claims before the Supreme Court

Preparing for Precision Medicine

Deep Sulcus Sign

Pyogenic Granuloma of the Finger

A Startling Decline

(Opinions?)

Monday, February 6th, 2012
4:14 pm - NEJM: February 2, 2012 Vol. 366 No. 5

allyson13
Improving Childhood Vaccination Rates

Keeping Score under a Global Payment System

Opportunity in Austerity — A Common Agenda for Medicine and Public Health

Post-Traumatic Herniated Cervical Disk

Insulin-Induced Lipohypertrophy

(Opinions?)

Sunday, January 29th, 2012
8:00 pm - NEJM: January 26, 2012 Vol. 366 No. 4

allyson13
The Sources of the SGR “Hole”

Time for a Change — A New Approach to ICD Replacement

Selling Bone Marrow — Flynn v. Holder

The Fate of Health Care Reform — What to Expect in 2012

Hypertrophic Pulmonary Osteoarthropathy and Tripe Palms

Perilymph Fistula Test

(Opinions?)

Sunday, January 22nd, 2012
6:04 pm - NEJM: January 19, 2012 Vol. 366 No. 3

allyson13
Generic Atorvastatin and Health Care Costs

Confirming the CMS Nominee — Overcoming Poisonous Politics

Pulmonary Cement Embolism after Vertebroplasty

Tophaceous Gout

(Opinions?)

Sunday, January 15th, 2012
6:58 pm - NEJM: January 12, 2012 Vol. 366 No. 2

allyson13
The Politics of Emergency Contraception

The Constitutionality of the ACA's Medicaid-Expansion Mandate

Expanding Eligibility, Cutting Costs — A Medicaid Update

Achieving Accountable Care — “It's Not About the Bike”

Paragonimiasis

Jugular Venous C-V Wave in Severe Tricuspid Regurgitation

(Opinions?)


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