Read article – Cites comments by Jonathan Skinner, the James O. Freedman Presidential Professor in Economics, professor of community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in an article about how compared to peer nations, the United States sends people to the hospital less often, it has a smaller share of specialist physicians, and it gives people about the same number of hospitalizations and doctors’ visits. Skinner has studied patterns in health care use in the United States, and noted that there probably is money to be saved by eliminating some of the extra scans and operations that are much more common in the United States than elsewhere.

Read article – A feature story about Peter Scalia, a PhD candidate at the Geisel School of Medicine, who coaches the Hanover Hockey Association’s Bantam Green youth hockey team.

Read article – An opinion piece by William Eidtson, instructor in medical education and director of learning support and student accessibility services, in which he discusses how students around the country are preparing to join the National School Walkout to protest political inaction around gun violence, and how many schools are still debating whether or not to punish students for missing class. (Eidtson is participating in this year’s Dartmouth Public Voices project.)

Read article – Quotes Elliott Fischer, director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and Eric Eichler ’57, in a news brief about how a recent gift from Eichler will allow for undergraduates at Dartmouth to have access to research and training from the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice that was previously only available to graduate and professional-level students. The expanded access for undergraduates will include an annual summer program, fellowship opportunities, and both co-curricular and for-credit courses.

Read article – An opinion piece by Alison Volpe Holmes, associate professor of pediatrics and of the Dartmouth Institute, in which she discusses the innovative way she and her colleagues are treating opioid-exposed newborns. “We will not end the opioid epidemic with just prevention and treatment programs. We will only break the bondage of opioids with unconditional love, and with community. The best place to begin is with the innocent, with the littlest victims of the epidemic,” says Holmes. (Holmes is participating in this year’s Dartmouth Public Voices project.)

Read article – Quotes Joshua Kim, director of digital learning initiatives at the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL), in an article about how more employers ease relocation for female managers by offering to help in husbands’ search for work. Joshua Kim faced the difficult decision of quitting a job he loved in 2006 so that his wife Julie Kim, assistant professor of pediatrics, could take a job at the Geisel School of Medicine. “That kind of patience for a career move is a challenge,” says Joshua. “As a trailing husband, you have to be more creative and inventive.”

Read article – Quotes H. Gilbert Welch, professor of medicine and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about how overdiagnosis isn’t something that doctors or researchers usually directly observe. “The occasional exception is when we do nothing for a diagnosed cancer and the patient goes on to die of something else,” says Welch.

Read article – Continued coverage of comments by Amber Barnato, the Susan J. and Richard M. Levy Distinguished Professor in Health Care Delivery, professor of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and professor of medicine, in an article that examines how many elderly patients undergo an operation in the year before they die, even though the evidence shows that many are more likely to be harmed than to benefit from it.

Read article – The Washington Post via Kaiser Health News | 2/28/18
Cites comments by Amber Barnato, the Susan J. and Richard M. Levy Distinguished Professor in Health Care Delivery, professor of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and professor of medicine, in an article that examines how many elderly patients undergo an operation in the year before they die, even though the evidence shows that many are more likely to be harmed than to benefit from it. (Picked up by NPR and NHPR.)

Read article – Cites data compiled by researchers at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, which found that less than 11 percent of Medicare beneficiaries took advantage of the free annual “wellness” visit benefit in 2012.