Keep Sound Minds

In 2008 I blogged  about how after Marci Thibault, in a state of psychosis, walked into New Hampshire traffic with her twin sister Danielle...

A Personal Experience with Medical Cost Containment

When I saw my primary care physician earlier this week he gave me a pep talk about scheduling the colonoscopy I'd been dawdling on doing...

The Right to Die from Mental Illness

Rachel Aviv has a superb article - "God Knows Where I Am: What should happen when patients reject their diagnosis ?" - in the Ma...

States are the Hotbed for Medical Ethics

On Tuesday, by voting to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), all 242 Republicans in the House of Representatives pr...

Accountable Care Organizations and Medical Ethics In New Hampshire

The action in health reform has passed to the states. Twenty states, nineteen of them led by Republican Attorney Generals cultivating future...

A Remarkable Health Initiative at the University of New Hampshire

Watching the federal health reform process has strengthened my conviction that the changes our health system needs will have to come from th...

Desperately Seeking Health Insurance

I spent the weekend in rural New Hampshire, and had occasion to talk with a friend about his elusive quest for affordable health insurance. ...

A Mental Health Tragedy Revisited

On December 11 I did a post on the tragic story in which Marci Thibault, in a state of psychosis, took actions that led to her death and th...

A Mental Health Tragedy

At 8:00 PM on Friday January 11, 2008, Marci Thibault came to her twin sister's home to pick up her 4 year old nephew Shane and 5 year o...

Good Politics but Bad Ethics in New Hampshire

On December 20, 2007, in California, 17 year old Nataline Sarkisyan died of leukemia and liver failure. On January 6, in New Hampshire, Nata...