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Health and health care were front and center in the news of 2014.  


Today on The Daily Circuit, Tom Crann talks with Dr. Jon Hallberg, the regular medical analyst for MPR's All Things Considered and a physician in family medicine at the University of Minnesota, about the year's top medical stories. 


Here's Hallberg's list, in alphabetical order:


"Never before have I talked to so many patients about their health insurance," Hallberg writes. "People are coming in who haven't been covered for years."


Hallberg says technology, ironically, has made him feel burnout this year. Earlier this month, local physicians talked about 

 DNA in stool.  Hallberg thinks colonoscopies will happen less.


What to do?  How to regulate them?  Good idea? Bad?  Are they 


Fear plague mentality, holes in the system, Time's 

. This is helping doctors figure out cases of 

 and other centers and incubators of innovation: iPhone apps, Fitbit, self-monitoring/self-quantification

 was one of Entertainment Weekly's Top 10 non-fiction books and one of The New York Times Top 5 non-fiction books 


Vicodin/hydrocodone re-classification to schedule II; Philip Seymour Hoffman's accidental OD


His death really affected us more than most celebrity deaths.

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Dr. Jon Hallberg

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Dr. Jon Hallberg, the regular medical analyst for MPR's All Things Considered, about the year's top medical stories.

Top health and medical stories of 2014

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