Read article – Andrew Pomerantz, associate professor of psychiatry, is quoted about the pioneering effort at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in White River Junction, Vt., to provide same-day care to veterans who come in with mental health issues has spread through the sprawling health system run by the U.S. Veterans Health Administration. “Things that have happened here in White River (Junction) have profoundly affected the entire VA system,” says Pomerantz.

Read article – Quotes Adrienne Faerber, research project manager at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about how various ads from drug and device makers appear designed to alarm consumers into taking action. “If you increase an individual’s feeling that they’re susceptible to a threat, and increase the perceived severity of that threat, people are more likely to take action,” says Faerber.

Read article – Quotes Elliott Fisher, chair and professor of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and professor of medicine and community and family medicine, in an article about how deciding whether hospital mergers, affiliations and other forms of cooperation are desirable is not an easy proposition—even for experts. “On the one hand, there is concern about consolidation leading to greater market power and higher prices for consumers,” says Fisher. “To the extent that clinical integration is being done to improve care for patients, and thereby lower the actual cost of taking care of them, that’s a great thing.”

Read article – Cites an editorial by Steven Woloshin and Lisa Schwartz, both professors of community and family medicine and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, who wrote that FDA administrators “overrode” scientists’ evaluations that the drug Addyi didn’t warrant approval.

Read article – H. Gilbert Welch, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, is quoted about how colonoscopies are an overused screening technique and that guidelines don’t necessarily recommend routine colonoscopies after age 50.

Read article – Quotes H. Gilbert Welch, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, from his book Less Medicine, More Health, about how biometric data collection can lead “people to feel more vulnerable, to be terrorized by false alarms, and to be overdiagnosed and overtreated.”