President's Blog - Catching Butterflies

May 15, 2013 - The What and the How

The Washington Post from April 28, 2013 carried an article by Ezra Klein, "If this was a pill, you’d do anything to get it.” The author describes the recent work of Health Quality Partners (HQP), based in Doylestown, PA, focusing on improving healthcare outcomes and reducing expenses for Medicare patients with at least one chronic illness and one hospitalization in the past year.

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Complexity Matters Blog

May 23, 2013 - That Gut Feeling May Mean More Than You Thought

Michael Pollan is always worth reading, and if he wants to tend the wild microbial garden in his gut, it’s worthwhile to explore the why and the how. In his New York Times Magazinearticle "Some of My Best Friends Are Bacteria." Pollan explains how he came to view himself as a superorganism rather than just one ordinary human being.

 

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