(Ken Picard, 8/26/2026) A Failure of Imagination traces Houser’s path to discovering a more compassionate approach to medicine. But the broader lessons in her book apply to anyone who interacts with the American health care system — that is, all of…
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KevinMD.com: The system isn’t broken. It was built this way.
(Melissa Houser, MD, 8/23/2026) An excerpt from A Failure of Imagination: How the Healthcare System Fails Neurodivergent People—and What We’re Doing Instead. I’m a physician. That’s the only formal training I have. When I set out, I didn’t know how to…
Barre-Montpelier Times Argus: Montpelier physician opens doors to neurodivergence
(Peter Cobb, 8/19/2026) In August 2008, Melissa Houser was in line at a grocery store in New York City. The next thing she knew, she was face down on the floor. Later, she learned she had experienced a “syncope without…