Do weather conditions really aggravate physical pain? It is one of the longest running controversies in medicine. Robert Jamison, HMS professor of anaesthesia at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is quoted.
Across Massachusetts, about half of primary care doctors aren’t taking new patients, according to the Massachusetts Medical Society’s 2013 Patient Access to Care Study. The Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care is mentioned as a major innovation in team-based care models. Asaf Bitton, HMS instructor in medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is quoted.
Asthma — the most common chronic disease that affects Americans of all ages, about 40 million people — can usually be well controlled with drugs. But being able to afford prescription medications in the United States often requires top-notch insurance or plenty of disposable income, and time to hunt for deals and bargains. Aaron Kesselheim, HMS assistant professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is quoted.
When doctors abuse painkillers or other prescription drugs, they’re usually not doing it to get high. Instead, they’re doing it to deal with overwhelming stress or physical or emotional pain, a small study suggests. J. Wesley Boyd, HMS assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Cambridge Health Alliance, is quoted.
Fielding questions about Harvard’s email privacy policy task force at an open forum Wednesday afternoon at HMS, David J. Barron, who heads the group, detailed the complex challenges it faces to developing a comprehensive policy as the group begins to solicit input from across the University.
James Colbert, HMS instructor in medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Sushrut Jangi, HMS instructor in medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, authored a new perspective piece arguing that part of the blame for the obesity epidemic lies with physicians – more specifically, the way doctors are trained. David Ludwig, HMS professor of pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital, is also quoted.
Haider Javed Warraich, HMS clinical fellow in medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, asks in an op-ed: is keeping patients satisfied and delivering high-quality care the same thing? And more important, can patients tell if they are getting good care?
When binge eating disorder gained legitimacy as a full-fledged mental condition in the latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in May, many people in the eating disorders and obesity communities wondered: Will this inspire us to finally get along?Jennifer J. Thomas, HMS assistant professor of psychology at Massachusetts General Hospital and co-author of “Almost Anorexic,” a book about sub-threshold eating disorders, is quoted.
