Kenneth Polonsky, MD, writes an editorial in the Chicago Tribune arguing that patients will lose if Washington raises the debt ceiling in a deal that cuts funding to teaching hospitals. He is the dean of the Pritzker School of Medicine and of biological sciences at the University of Chicago....

Jai Raman, MD, professor of surgery, discusses the heart transplant he performed on Glenn Bovard of Valparaiso, Indiana. Bovard's insurance company wouldn't pay for the surgery until they were forced to lift the lifetime cap under health care reform. He got a good heart and has a much longer life...

We talk with Nora Jaskowiak, breast cancer surgeon, about the advances in treating each different type of breast cancer.