An Experiment in Educating Congress about the Health Effects of War Society for Medical Anthropology , Ostrach B., Houston A., Singer M. In the United States, Congress wields enormous power over health care policy and funding. With health care committees and floor votes on budgets controlling national health spending of nearly three trillion dollars annually […]
Danielle Dresner MPH, Katherine Gergen Barnett MD, Kirsten Resnick BS, Lance Laird ThD, Paula Gardiner MD, MPH Introduction Chronic pain is a pervasive and costly health issue in the United States today, affecting up to 100 million individual Americans, and costing up to $635 billion in health care dollars [1]. Even with the billions of dollars being spent, current medical treatments for chronic pain in primary care […]
Anything above 5% is a social inequity By Katherine Gergen Barnett AS THE BITTER COLD has returned to the streets of Boston, I have been driven into the warmth of the T more than once on my bike commute home from the hospital. The scene there is familiar – workers weary at the end of […]
Doug Comeau and the Ryan Center is features in the article “Tell Me Tuesday: All About the Black Toenail” by Maureen Dempsey Click here to read the full story.
Dear Brian, At BMC we believe all of our patients, regardless of their social or economic status, should have access to every available treatment. Gifts from our benefactors and other forms of much needed support from friends and colleagues helped create access to integrative care for the whole person, from hands-on therapies […]
“Group Medical Visits: The Future of Healthcare” 小组医学访视：医疗的未来? Visitas médicas en grupo: ¿El futuro de la asistencia sanitaria? By: Katherine Gergen Barnett We are at an interesting crossroads in today’s medical healthcare system. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) passed in 2010 and, further supported in the King vs Burwell Supreme Court Decision earlier this […]
Congratulations to Katherine Gergen Barnett, MD for being published in the “Global Advances in Health and Medicine”. Circles You speak to me of Uganda Recalling when you brought A blade To the neck of the king’s son Your eyes widened In surprise By the memory A memory Scraped clean by Your recent circles of […]
In the NEJM article on dietary supplement adverse events in the ED (below); among the 39 citations listed, four of them were first authored papers of Paula Gardiner in the DFM. It’s a powerful sign of the impact of her work. Congratulations Paula! Click below: Emergency Department Visits for Adverse Events Related to Dietary Supplements […]
“Medical residents seek to access prescription data” By: Felice J. Freyer “The patient at Boston Medical Center needed painkillers, but Dr. Sara Schlotterbeck had concerns: The medical record suggested past misuse of opioids by the man. She wanted to check the Prescription Monitoring Program, a state-run database of every prescription for controlled substances, to see […]
The HUFFPOST Healthy Living blog features Katherine Gergen-Barnett, M.D. and Intergrative Medicine in their “Top 10 for Policy and Action in Integrative Health and Medicine”. #3. Katherine Gergen-Barnett, M.D. and Integrative Medicine Group Visits atHealth Affairs “Meanwhile, at the safety net Boston Medical Center, Katherine Gergen-Barnett, M.D. (pictured), a researcher associated with Paula Gardiner, M.D., MPH’s […]