Trailside Health

11/12/2025

Avoiding screens of all kinds (science says) increases our humanity...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jonathan-haidt.html?smid=fb-share&fbclid=IwY2xjawOB0adleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA80MDk5NjI2MjMwODU2MDkAAR76lC3Dl6xA4CJyq8DrOvD4SIIjtKiIpIokrWSUjoulxj4AwuDYWwmfGxbKSw_aem_b0RGZOxgRw2e2tvMbR_9Mg&brid=I0QY0AH-_HxBeBRViRcT1Q

The social psychologist Jonathan Haidt discusses the “parents’ revolution” on smartphones that his book “The Anxious Generation” has started.

06/06/2024

A absolutely incredibly wonderful day manning our clinic meeting with new patients, mothers and fathers, who all share our experiences with the most incredible, insightful, rigorously thorough and no-nonsense Guardian ad Litem we are blessed to have in all of Western Massachusetts.

All of our hats off to you, Jennifer Zajac. Our children owe everything to you :)

https://www.jeniferzajac.com/

03/31/2024

Bills can add up fast when you're dealing with a health crisis. And if you can't pay them, they can wreak havoc on your finances. Here's how to stay out of medical debt — or make it go away.

03/31/2024

National Public Radio also recommends

1) do not put payments on your credit card (it turns them into 'consumer debt' and removes your legal protections)

2) do not sign consent for urgent/emergent care in the Emergency Room - they are still required to care for you

3) negotiate a fair payment after you receive care

Remember, no one pays retail.

Bills can add up fast when you're dealing with a health crisis. And if you can't pay them, they can wreak havoc on your finances. Here's how to stay out of medical debt — or make it go away.

02/02/2024

We trust science to offer you the safest care for all people of every kind.

Keeping business and politics *out* of your health care for over twenty years...

Trans activists have pushed an ideological extremism by pressing for an unproven treatment orthodoxy.

01/20/2024

This is pretty dense for folks outside of my medical field; for those interested in health care reform and what we are doing right here in Shelburne Falls, please read the challenging conclusions...

I'm in an email group that is all in agreement that the U.S. healthcare system is exorbitantly expensive and needs reform. We come from wildly different b...

10/22/2023

There is more to health than how long we simply live. There is also happiness.

The latest alcohol advice ignores the value of pleasure.

10/22/2023

We swear we did not do all of this...