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Besides his books, Bill has written a variety of poems, short stories, opinion pieces, and more.
A National Avalanche of Dying Principles….
UVM Medical Center In the run-up to President Trump’s budget submission, some 28 Freedom Caucus members and other conservative hardliners vociferously opposed it, on camera, for their participants. Then, under personal pressure...
UVM Health Network Hospitals… a coup d’état or a coup de grace?
Courtesy UVM Medical Center Hospital During the week of June 9th, Dr. Sunny Eappen consolidated all leadership power among the UVM Health Network’s (UVMHN) owned hospitals under his direct control,...
Vermont’s nonprofit sector… a study in governance
We’re supposed to be “a nation of laws,” with an evolving body of statutory law established by the Congress and state legislatures that also put in place regulatory boards such...
Heroin in Vermont
The danger in believing we are special is that it can blind us to what’s right under our noses. We mix and drink our Kool-Aid and then bask in our...
The Future of Vermont Health Care
Vermont has committed to meeting the standards imposed by the new federal healthcare law and also to pioneer a single-payer system by 2017. And while few would debate the need...
Work or exercise?
My friends go to a gym to exercise, I don’t. I really like strenuous activity; I just want something practical or beautiful to come of it. I love doing hard...
Mental Health is Not a Black Hole
NASA defines a black hole as… “a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light cannot get out. The gravity is so strong because matter has been...
Don’t medicate grief
Recently, the leader of a major eastern university observed that twenty-five per cent of his incoming class this year is on some form of prescribed psychotropic medication for ADHD, depression,...
Healthcare and the Role of Vermont Hospitals
As a grateful user of Vermont’s healthcare system (UVM hip replacement last year), an observer of its growth (the house I grew up in in Morrisville was next to a...
Why is Pharma Obsessed with my Cucumber?
A recent audit report by State Auditor Doug Hoffer lays bare the staggering cost of healthcare to Vermonters – $9,000 per year, almost $2,000 more than the national average. For a worker...
Do We Fully Understand and Account for Addiction in Vermont?
Last year, well over 100 Vermonters died of street and pharmaceutical drug overdoses. Like traffic deaths, we keep track and publicize annually our drug deaths both as an indicator of...
Vermont Healthcare: A Mare’s Nest
As I’ve written in the past, we’ll never sort out the hot mess that health care’s become in Vermont and in the U.S. until we agree on the fundamental question...
