Read article—Andrew Schuman, a clinical assistant professor of pediatrics, is quoted in an article about compensation for medical professionals. “Primary care is the base of a pyramid where we generate a lot of services and generate a lot of revenue for institutions and for specialists,” Schuman said. “It’s an important code because it emphasizes the importance of providers in coordinating care.”

Read article—Michael E. Zegans, a professor of surgery and of microbiology and immunology, writes an opinion piece about a bill that would allow optometrists, who are not medical doctors or trained surgeons, to perform eye surgeries in New Hampshire. “Surgery is not merely an extension of routine care or a way to ‘enhance’ a business practice. It is its own specialty, requiring extensive medical residency and surgical training that cannot be replaced with optometry school coursework,” Zegans writes.

Read article—Nicholas Jacobson, an associate professor of biomedical data and psychiatry, is quoted in a story about states’ legislation to regulate therapy chatbots. The story mentions Jacobson’s Therabot study and his recent op-ed and testimony about New Hampshire Senate Bill 640. “These systems need to be designed to mitigate the risks,” Jacobson said. “But at the same time there is a lot of promise here.”

Read article – Features a conversation with Christopher Sharp, MED ’98, about how AI is changing medicine and can be used to support patients and doctors. “AI provides an important window to access data locked up in narratives somewhere in the record that would be very hard to identify or find. It also provides the opportunity to utilize data in new ways that does not require as much effort by our clinicians,” Sharp said.

Read article – Steven Woloshin MED ’96, a professor of medicine and community and family medicine, is featured in an article about the debate over direct-to-consumer ads. “Part of aging is developing health conditions and becoming a target of drug advertising,” Woloshin said.