An interview with playwright, Cathy Plourde, founder of Add Verb productions about her new play, Major Medical Breakthrough.  Cathy tells the story of writing a play to inspire health care providers to screen their patients for domestic violence.  She gave sobering statistics about the high numbers of women and some men, who are being abused who see their doctors during the abuse and are never asked about it.  Indeed only 10-19% of doctors report that they screen their patients routinely for domestic violence. Cathy stressed that where there is domestic violence, there is also likely to be sexual assault, something that often goes unasked about.  She cites the ACE study to show that the more trauma in a person’s life, the more physical health problems they will have, and unless our doctors and nurses ask their patients, the cause of many illnesses will be missed.  She gave a thoughtful description of why providers are hesitant to ask, but encouraged health workers to trust that asking the question, providing support and access to resources can make a tremendous difference.