Common sense suggests that alluding to the naive politician played by Jimmy Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington to describe a decision by the founder of Priceline, billionaire Jay Walker, is awfully wrong-headed.
Yet there is blunt idealism in the 46-year-old Walker's language about re-positioning the...
(100) Comments | Posted March 29, 2012 | 4:05 PM
"Midwives have a central focus in our strategic plan. We are hoping Washington State can double out-of-facility births in the next two or three years."
The speaker was Jeff Thompson, M.D., MPH, chief medical officer of the state of Washington's Medicaid program. He spoke in a taped interview...
(8) Comments | Posted February 16, 2012 | 6:01 PM
Reading through Bravewell's report, "Integrative Medicine in America: How Integrative Medicine is Being Practiced in the United States," opens a treasure trove of riches for those intrigued by the emerging field. One wanders through one display after another on how medical directors in 29 health system-sponsored integrative medicine...
(10) Comments | Posted February 6, 2012 | 2:07 PM
A bit of integrative medicine history was made in January 2012 when the U.S. Indian Health Service (IHS) quietly announced that licensed naturopathic doctors, acupuncturists and chiropractors would be included in 2012 in the IHS' student loan repayment programs.
The announcement magnetized students and recent graduates. Was this...
(1) Comments | Posted January 30, 2012 | 12:29 PM
"You're either at the table or on the menu." So runs the adage that defines much in the Washington, D.C. Beltway.
Two early 2012 notices sent to me as publisher of the Integrator Blog News & Reports for broader dissemination to the integrative health community by
(34) Comments | Posted December 28, 2011 | 9:32 AM
Caveat emptor: A good friend has warned me that my annual exploration of the year's highlights for integrative medicine in the form of a Top 10 is "too much inside baseball" for The Huffington Post readers. I thought I'd let you decide.
The year was a good one for...
(3) Comments | Posted December 9, 2011 | 3:59 PM
The forced exit of Don Berwick, MD as administrator of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services was a double whammy for the emerging field of integrative medicine.
Berwick is a knowledgeable advocate of the core principles of integrative health care. Few policy leaders are...
(4) Comments | Posted November 29, 2011 | 10:58 AM
When it comes to motivation, money may be the queen among carrots and pain the king among sticks.
Both are increasingly on the side of a more rapid uptake of integrative medicine into mainstream delivery, according to leaders of health systems and military medicine. Representatives of each spoke Nov. 10,...
(0) Comments | Posted April 11, 2012 | 5:22 PM