I appreciate Timothy Caulfield’s exploration of the “straw men” set up in many a discussion over integrative, complementary, or alternative medicines (CAM for short). However, I think we need to […]
US healthcare
David Kerr: Don’t move fast and break things
New technology companies need the oxygen of someone else’s money to survive and grow, that’s how capitalism works. Here in California, multi-million dollar investments and eye-watering billion dollar company valuations […]
William Cayley: Continuity over efficiency
It has become fairly clearly established that a strong primary care system is associated with better overall health for a society and a more equitable distribution of health in the […]
Ted Alcorn: America’s daily routine of gun violence
Speaking hours after another high profile mass shooting—this one perpetrated at a community college in Oregon by a young man who shot 18 people, killing nine, before shooting and killing […]
Tracey Koehlmoos on working as a policy adviser in the US Marines
And so…after two years and seven months at the Pentagon as the Special Assistant to the Assistant Commandant and Senior Program Liaison for Community Health Integration in the United States […]
William Cayley: Life saving science?
This past week saw the interestingly coincident publication of a reanalysis of “Study 329” in The BMJ and an opinion piece in the New York Times, calling for more rapid dissemination of […]
William Cayley: Comfort always and advocacy for the vulnerable
Reading the Monday morning paper, I was greeted by stories about ongoing fights over whether or how to undo the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) and controversies over solitary confinement. Later, while driving […]
William Cayley: Ethics and professional wisdom
The recently publicized news that the American Psychological Association (APA) “colluded” with US governmental agencies to create ethical guidelines permitting psychologists to participate in “harsh interrogations” of military detainees is appalling. […]
Muriel Gillick: When life gives you lemons—the 2015 White House Conference on Aging
In the heady days of the early 1960s, when the oldest of the baby boomer generation were teenagers and only 9.2% of the population were age 65 or older, the […]
David Kerr: The for profit company will see you now
When you hear hoof beats, think of horses not zebras, is the aphorism coined in the 1940s by Theodore Woodward to explain that common conditions occur commonly and rare ones […]