Gibson’s track record as a clinical scholar and author is impressive. “She received the highest honor from American Medical Writers Association for outstanding contributions to reporting on critical health issues in the public interest. She is board chair at Altarum Institute, a non-profit health systems research group in Ann Arbor; board member of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and served on the CLER Evaluation Committee to advance patient safety in teaching hospitals. At Robert Wood Johnson Fdn, she architected its $200 million national strategy to establish inpatient palliative care programs that now number 1800, an increase from about 10 in the 1990s, and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. She worked with Bill Moyers on the PBS documentary, “On Our Own Terms.” She has given presentations at hundreds of hospitals; keynoted meetings of the National Quality Forum, The Joint Commission, AONE, National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Federation of State Medical Boards, National Summit on Overuse held by The Joint Commission and AMA, Society of Critical Care Medicine, among others; was faculty for the Dartmouth Summer Symposium on Quality Improvement and its 2013 “wizard.” Her books – China RX, Wall of Silence, Treatment Trap, Battle Over Health Care, Government-run Medicare Meltdown – have been reviewed in Publishers Weekly, Washington Post, JAMA, Health Affairs; referenced in proceedings of the U.S. Senate; mentioned in Congressional testimony; noted in the WSJ, NYT, USA Today, Consumer Reports, and Boston Globe, O Magazine, Reader’s Digest, US News and World Report, & Modern Healthcare. Wall of Silence was translated into Japanese; the Chinese translation of Treatment Trap won the prestigious Open Book Award from China Times. Rosemary has appeared on Chicago Tonight, WBGH’s Greater Boston, The Doctors, C-Span Book TV.”
Here is an interview I had with John Solomon at Real America’s Voice distilling what I learned from Rosemary Gibson about the dilemma.
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