The magazine, which comes out quarterly, is funded primarily through foundation grants. It’s encouraging to see that hospitals are also among ChopChop’s funders—including Boston Medical Center, Tufts Medical Center, Boston Children’s Hospital, and the Cleveland Clinic’s Children’s Hospital. A small clue, perhaps, that the medical business is coming to realize there’s more to good health than the latest and greatest imaging machine.

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Trudy Lieberman is a fellow at the Center for Advancing Health and a longtime contributing editor to the Columbia Journalism Review. She is the lead writer for The Second Opinion, CJR’s healthcare desk, which is part of our United States Project on the coverage of politics and policy. Follow her on Twitter @Trudy_Lieberman.