(Tracy Brannstrom, 10/13/2026) What if health care, workplaces, and other systems were designed with the people who use them in mind? That question is at the heart of Montpelier physician Mel Houser’s new book “A Failure of Imagination: How the…
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Seven Days VT book review: Short Takes on Five New Vermont Books
(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…
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…