Intimate Partner Violence - More and Deadlier For Women

Violence against women is an enormous health issue in the United States. According to an FBI report in 2001 , nearly a third of female homic...

Steven Slater, Air Travel, and Organizational Ethics

One day after Jet Blue flight attendant Steven Slater cursed out a passenger, grabbed a beer, and then bolted from the plane by sliding down...

Mental Health Parity Won't Work Without Ethical Managed Care

It's hard to tell the "good guys" from the "bad guys" in implementing the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental He...

"The Kids are All Right" and Doctor-Patient Sex

A few days ago my wife and I saw the new film "The Kids are All Right" at the charming little (100 or so seats) Savoy Theater in ...

WikiLeaks and Medical Ethics

WikiLeaks , the secure website that publishes documents leaked by whistleblowers, has been front page news since it published 92,000 secret ...

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...