In This Issue:

- New Ways to Track Treatment Patterns

- Tapping Your Own Network

- Casting a Wider Net

- The Path to Health and Happiness

- Excerpt from New Ways to Find the Best Doctor -

If you're lucky, you have an established relationship with a healthcare provider who has good medical and communication skills, generous availability and responsive office management. If that doesn't describe you, then you know how hard it is to find the right doctor. Now there are new sources of help for making your best patient doctor match.

New Ways to Track a Doctor's Treatment Patterns -

ProPublica.org, the nonprofit investigative news service we regularly consult, has a new tool, Treatment Tracker. Now you can look over any doctor's shoulder and see how his or her practice patterns compare to peers.