The Wall Street Journal – An interview with Scott Wallace, visiting professor of community and family medicine, and other healthcare professionals, on standards for measuring the quality of healthcare.
In the News
NH Doctor Reflects on Her Efforts to Battle the Ebola Beast
New Hampshire Union Leader – A feature on Elizabeth Talbot, associate professor of medicine and New Hampshire’s deputy state epidemiologist, and her experience helping to fight the spread of Ebola in Sierra Leone.
Dartmouth Medical Students Learn Next Step in Careers
WMUR – A feature on the annual Match Day, in which medical students learn where they will spend their residencies. Article quotes numerous Geisel students on their reactions to Match Day.
Far Out Man, Man! Scientists Figure Out Why Some Mushrooms Glow
NBC – Quotes Jay Dunlap, professor of genetics, on how various organisms produce their own light. (Similar coverage by ABC Science, Newsweek, Los Angeles Times, and others).
Letting Patients Call the Shots
The Atlantic – Glyn Elwyn, professor and senior scientist at the Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science, comments on the shift toward shared decision-making between patients and healthcare providers.
Medical Care: How Much Is Too Much?
VPR – An interview with H. Gilbert Welch, professor of medicine, on his new book, Less Medicine, More Health, which contends against the prevailing medical assumptions that drive too much medical care.
Inviting Patients to Help Decide Their Own Treatment
News OK – Quotes Glyn Elwyn, professor and senior scientist at the Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science, on the changing nature of decision-making between doctors and patients when choosing treatment.
More Health Care Isn’t Always the Answer
U-T San Diego – Quotes Elliott Fisher, director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, on an example of how some medical procedures are overused.
What Is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
U.S. News & World Report – Philip Kinsler, adjunct associate professor of psychiatry, comments on the controversial nature of diagnosing dissociative identity disorder, a condition in which a patient’s personality splinters into different identities in order to cope with trauma and emotional pain.
Thousands Have Already Signed up for Apple’s ResearchKit
Bloomberg – Quotes Lisa Schwartz, professor of medicine, on the potential flaws in the information gathered through ResearchKit, a tool that has created a generated a pool of millions of iPhone owners worldwide, letting doctors find trial participants for medical studies at unprecedented rates.