Tag: Katherine Gergen-Barnett
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 […]
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 […]
The Healer’s Art, originally developed and offered by Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen at UCSF in 1993, is a curriculum designed to address the human dimension of medicine. This 15-hour elective course is now offered at over 60 medical schools in North America and is now in its tenth year at BU Medical School. Course topics […]