Today’s guest is Chris Dougherty, President and CEO of Brattleboro Memorial Hospital in Brattleboro, Vermont. Chris knew from a young age that he wanted to be a healthcare leader to serve the most vulnerable in our communities. He has done exactly that, having been a hospital CEO on both coasts and in Texas. In this podcast, Chris shares his career…

Today’s guest is Darin Roark, President and Chief Operating Officer of Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover, New Hampshire. Darin has an unusual path, from working in an insurance company to becoming a nurse specialized in emergency medicine and intensive care, to leading large organizations. His path also took him from Illinois to Florida to Dover…

Today’s guest is Kelly Barton, President of Maine Behavioral Healthcare, part of the MaineHealth System. Maine Behavioral Healthcare offers a full spectrum of behavioral health care, from community-based counseling and rehabilitation to a dedicated behavioral health hospital. In this podcast we talk about Kelly’s career journey starting as a unit c…

Today’s guest is Paul E. Fort, the CEO of FedPoint. FedPoint is a fast-growing provider of benefit administration and technology solutions for large institutional sponsors, with focus on the federal government of the United States and its numerous departments and agencies. In this podcast we talk about Paul’s unusual career journey to become an ins…

My people married theirfirst cousins and passed oncrooked backs and congenitaldeafness - my peoplescraped desert island hills into terraces and pleadedwith the earth - my peoplegathered the rain in cisternshidden beneath their huts. There was neverenough, and povertyonly begets beauty and generosity in the movies. It's only truechildren are fear an…

Spoken word. See text at https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-first-day-of-spring.html

Friend from Childhood's Last Days Would I recognize you all these years later friend from childhood's last days? From bottomless time playing Atari and banana seat bicycles riding over cracked sidewalks late into summer nights? How have you aged, with a dad-bod belly and a receding hairline? or are you just divorce-worn, living alone except every o…

Spoken word. Text here: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2023/01/leonardos-first-flight.html

Spoken word. More at https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-residents.html

Spoken word. Words here: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/11/unleashed.html

Spoken word. https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/11/when-it-was-not.html

Today’s guest is Dr. Jeffrey Fetter, the Chief Medical Officer for the New Hampshire State Hospital. Dr. Fetter is a board-certified physician in both internal medicine and psychiatry, and has spent his career caring for some of the most vulnerable patients in New Hampshire. The New Hampshire State Hospital is a secure, inpatient psychiatric hospit…

Today’s guest is Jason Dupuis, the Chief Patient Experience Officer for PM Pediatrics Health. In this podcast we talk about his early career at Boston Children’s where he rose to the director of the Emergency Department before he was thirty, and then how he got a job with PM Pediatrics when it was an emerging pediatrics urgent care chain because he…

Today’s guest is Dr. Bill Hudenko. Dr. Hudenko is a licensed psychologist who has extensive clinical experience working with children who have disruptive-behavior disorders and autism-spectrum disorders. Dr. Hudenko is is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College, an Adjunct Assistant Pr…

Colonel Peacock has had a fascinating career from being a medevac pilot flying black hawks to being the vice provost of the Army Medical Department’s facility for training the majority of medical specialties in the Army, to being the Commander of the BG Crawford F. Sams Army Health Clinic in Camp Zama Japan. In this podcast, Colonel Peacock shares …

Today’s guest is my colleague Dr. Tyler Jamison, associate professor of Human Development and Family studies here at the University of New Hampshire. Tyler is an expert in the field of young adult romantic relationships. I asked Tyler to join me today because romantic relationships are an important part of health and leading a meaningful and fulfil…

Text at https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/06/how-it-begins-again.html

Spoken word piece about running out of time. see written piece here: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/05/us-who-are-lucky.html

Spoken word piece - some days you can't be. words: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/04/i-am-only-fool.html

A spoken word piece about gluttony, one of the seven deadly sins Written here: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/03/gluttony.html

A spoken word piece about Envy, the worst of the 7 deadly sins written: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/03/banishment.html

In this podcast I had the honor of interviewing Major General (retired) David Rubenstein. Among the many duties of his career, General Rubenstein was the commander of the Army Medical Department Center and School, which was the unit where I was an instructor before I retired from the Army, and he was also the chief of the Medical Service Corps, the…

A spoken word piece about the thinness between reality and the mystical More at: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-path-between-worlds.html

Spoken word piece about the damn cat and his morning howling. Text here: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-cat-is-awake.html

a spoken word piece text at https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/02/office-of-days.html

Today’s guest is Dr. Seoka Salstrom, Founder & Director of the Hanover Center for Cognitive Behavioral Therapies, in Hanover, NH. Seoka has a phd in clinical psychology and specializes in evidence-based behavioral health interventions, with a special interest in anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders. In this podcast we discuss how she grew up …

A spoken word piece about winter. For text, see https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/01/collective-action.html

A spoken word piece about the frustrations of being young and not knowing better. See https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/01/youth.html

Today’s guest is my colleague Dr. Anita Tucker, professor of Social Work, and associate director of the Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare (OBH) Center here at the University of New Hampshire. She is also a co-author of the recent textbook, Adventure Group Therapy: An Experiential Approach to Treatment. Anita was an early practitioner of adventure group…

Today’s guest is Andrew Calkins, the CEO of Sage Family of Companies. Andrew has extensive experience as a healthcare executive in a wide range of healthcare delivery organizations including long-term care, hospice, home health, and outpatient mental health. In this podcast, we talk about how he went from a clerk in the mailroom to managing complex…

Today’s guest is Dr. Neil Meehan, the Chief Physician Executive of Exeter Health Resources. Dr. Meehan is a board-certified Emergency Medicine physician, and was the driving force behind the creation of the New Hampshire Physician Leadership Development Program, a joint effort between the New Hampshire Medical Society, the New Hampshire Hospital As…

Today’s guest is Dr. Neil Meehan, the Chief Physician Executive of Exeter Health Resources. Dr. Meehan is a board-certified Emergency Medicine physician, and was the driving force behind the creation of the New Hampshire Physician Leadership Development Program, a joint effort between the New Hampshire Medical Society, the New Hampshire Hospital As…

At the end of a semester, saying goodbye. The class vs. the students. Text: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2021/05/empty-classroom.html

text here: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-game.html

Text: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2012/08/45365-driving-to-work.html

Text: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2012/08/45365-driving-to-work.html

Text: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2012/09/50365.html

text: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2012/09/57365-4-in-morning.html

text: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2012/05/16365-heaven-on-earth.html

Text: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2012/09/53365.html

text: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2012/09/52365-running-on-old-trails.html

Text: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2009/01/doing-hustle.html

what the devil wants https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2021/05/bargaining-with-devil.html

Dancing and being young - so delicate.

the one thing that allows us to see each other as human

A meditation on letting go of desire. https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2021/03/a-meditation-by-tree-upon-noble-truth.html

Friendship is a choice.

Fifty and not dead.

This podcast is a recording of a live panel held jointly sponsored by the sponsors of this podcast, the Department of Health Management and Policy at the University of New Hampshire and the Northern New England Healthcare Executives, the local chapter of the American College of Healthcare Executives. The panel was titled, COVID-19: What We Learned …

So many perfect days.