Eating Disorder Screening Tool

Occasionally our team will ask our psychologist, Dr. Rebecca Seifert, to do psychological testing on a patient.  Such testing is time consuming and expensive.  Why do we do it and…

This is a blog about excess. And because it is a Kartini blog, it is about food. How can we find our balance in this country with one large contingency…

I recently engaged with fellow eating disorder treatment providers in an online discussion about the biological basis of anorexia nervosa. I want to share parts of that discussion and my…

The answer is, without a doubt, a resounding Yes. Whatever the collective merits of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, signed into law by President Obama on March 23,…

DSM-V: A Rose by any other name... It is true that childhood-onset anorexia nervosa would be the same illness no matter what we called it, so why does it matter…

Anyone with any experience - personal or professional - of eating disorders will know the lengths individuals or families often have to go to get proper treatment. I speak on…

From the world of public health and the campaign against tuberculosis comes critical information relevant to our patients with eating disorders.  As many of you know, we have found the…

I can't keep quiet about it.  All over this country we are talking about the outrageous cost of medical care, trying to tease out the reasons medical care seems to…

I often have to counsel families to appeal denied claims, especially from mental health insurers who are hired by larger health plans to "administer" mental health benefits. In my experience…

That light we can see at the end of this long, dim tunnel is the lantern of hope.  Sound corny?  It wouldn't if you had been afraid to go to…