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...