Here are the top posts from this past week, based on the number of times they were viewed.

1. Understand the medical economics of a primary care practice. If we are going to make rational decisions about health care reform, it helps to understand the medical economics of a primary care practice.

2. Lack of sexual interest is the most common sexual complaint in women. The discussion calls to mind the character of 50-something Samantha from Sex in The City. With her healthy libido, is Samantha the woman that women want to be? Or, is she the woman that men want us to be? Or, is she the woman that scares us? Or, is she simply a fantasy?

3. How to fix primary care in 3 steps. Primary care physicians, including pediatricians, are usually really nice people. But old baseball fans will remember that Leo Durocher famously said, “nice guys finish last.”

4. Fewer physicians are taking call in rural emergency rooms. My partners and I have long struggled with the lack of specialty back-up at our hospital. Semi-rural hospitals, out of the way facilities, just can’t always attract specialists.

5. Nurse practitioners and their relationships with pharma. Doctors have been under significant scrutiny over the years regarding their relationships with pharmaceutical companies.