Disgraceful Republican Attacks on Don Berwick

The Republican attack machine is at it again. Here's what they're saying about Don Berwick, President Obama's inspired choice to...

Obesity as a Risk Factor for Early Sexual Debut in Young Adolescent Girls?

The topic of obesity in relation to adolescent girls and sexual activity first arose during a patient encounter of an obese 13-year-old girl...

Consumer Directed Health Care Can Work!

On Thursday during a break in the cloudy/rainy weather in Vermont, I took the 3/4 mile hike up to Lake Pleiad , a mountain lake that's a...

Gallup Will Track Impact of HCR Provisions Now in Effect

Gallup has announced that it will use its existing polling on health care utilization to track the effectiveness of provisions of the healt...

Continuity of Care

As I read the final paragraphs of " A Doctor Discovers a Patient in the Mirror " by Dr. Ellen Feld, an internist who teaches at Dr...

Evidence Based Planning and the Obama Protocols

Evidence Based Planning: How it Impacts Health Care EBP: What it is Evidence based planning is the catch phrase of the health care reform mo...

Managed Care and Accountable Care Organizations

I recently received the following note from a mental health clinician I know to be clinically excellent and fair-minded as well: I am aware ...

The New Abortion Providers

Today's New York Times Magazine features a superb article about "The New Abortion Providers." But before I write about it I h...

Single Payer System for Vermont

Vermont is the second smallest state in the U.S. (2009 population - 621,000), but from the perspective of health reform, it's the most i...

Healthy nutrition - need to ask about access

When you ask about nutrition - you need to ask about access to food. During your third year as a medical student,  caring for people in the ...

Grandma and her Robot

I'd never heard of Paro, a six pound robot modeled on a baby harp seal, until I read about him (for me, Paro is a "he") in the...

Don Berwick, Medicare, and Congress

I'm in the hills of central Vermont, but by the wonders of satellite I just read that President Obama plans to make a recess appointmen...

Massachusetts and the Future of Health Reform

If Massachusetts predicts the future of U.S. health reform - and I believe it does - there's a wild ride ahead! In April, Governor Deval...

Women's Health Ambulatory Experience

Many moons ago when we developed the Ambulatory rotation, we wanted to give seniors an opportunity: for 1:1 face time with mentors and role ...

Women's Health Pathway versus Women's Health Scholars and the Seminar Series

Happy Summer - such that it is, being in medical training! Let me clarify two different experiences house here at the Women's Health Edu...