Read article – Features Thom Walsh, an adjunct instructor at the Dartmouth Institute, in an article about how the Green Mountain Care Board proposed cutting the 2023 budget of OneCare Vermont. “We have an underperforming entity, and to approve the budget as submitted feels wasteful,” Walsh said. Walsh is a member of the Green Mountain Care board.

Read article – Features Cody Meissner, a professor of pediatrics and of medicine, in an article about COVID-19 vaccine booster mandates. “I think that’s a reflection that people have lost confidence in vaccines. I’ve spent my whole life working on vaccines, so it breaks my heart.,” Meissner said of low rates of influenza vaccination rates this year.

Read article – Ken Dolkart, a clinical assistant professor of medicine, writes a column about the difficulty of finding primary healthcare clinicians. “U.S. adults are least likely among developed nations to have regular primary care,” Dolkart writes.

Read article – Ira Byock, a professor emeritus of medicine and of community and family medicine, writes an opinion piece about the need to save hospice care in the U.S. “At its best, this kind of care is nearly magical in its ability to restore seriously ill people to a sense of living in the midst of dying,” Byock writes.

Read article – Features comments by James Bernat, an emeritus professor of neurology, in an article about the ethics of normothermic regional perfusion, a new approach to establishing criteria for organ donation after circulatory determination of death. Given that the new approach to organ procurement challenges the notion of what it means to be declared dead, Bernat said “it’s important that there be a general understanding of what’s going on and a general agreement on what’s acceptable,” in the eyes of the many stakeholders.

Read article – Features comments by Douglas Staiger, a professor of economics and of the Dartmouth Institute, about a study he co-authored that projected how much potential income could be lost due to diminished math learning among eighth graders since schools transitioned to remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. “When there are improvements in scores, those kids coming out of school are going to have better outcomes later in life,” said Staiger. “And we can infer from this recent decline that all the cohorts in school now are going to do a bit worse than we expected.”

Read article – A profile piece on Jonathan Skinner, a professor of the Dartmouth Institute, about his research into health care productivity and the effects of an aging population. “A lot of people arrive at retirement kind of not really having a good sense for either how they’re going to support themselves or how to move into a sustainable level of spending,” Skinner said.

Read article – A feature on Ellesse-Roselee Akré, an assistant professor of the Dartmouth Institute, who is the first recipient of Dartmouth’s new E.E. Just Faculty Fellowship. “In health services, marginalized populations are often left empirically invisible. It can really make you feel, especially when you embody these identities, that you likely aren’t valued in the space,” Akré said. “It really feels good to see the field moving in a way that it is more inclusive.”

Read article – Features Douglas Robertson, a professor of medicine and of the Dartmouth Institute, in an article about the use of stool tests—including fecal immunochemical tests, or FIT—over colonoscopies in screening for colon cancer.