Healthcare Musings For May 9, 2025

Healthcare Musings For May 9, 2025

May 9, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   There Are Increasing Challenges to Practice and Medical Research   Until the 21st of January, the challenge to medical practice and research was how to make faster progress. The last eighty years have been a journey of...
Healthcare Musings For May 2, 2025

Healthcare Musings For May 2, 2025

May 2, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   The First 100 Days of a Bad Dream   I apologize for the excessive attention I have given to the blatant dangers ahead inherent in our reckless president’s personality disorder and destructive ambitions. His...
Healthcare Musings For April 25, 2025

Healthcare Musings For April 25, 2025

April 25, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   One Hundred Days of Damage to the Nation and the Future of Its Health   In his column yesterday, Thomas Friedman quoted David Brooks. Brooks has said that Donald Trump is the wrong answer to the right question. Trump...
Healthcare Musings for April 18, 2025

Healthcare Musings for April 18, 2025

April 18, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   Everything Is Connected, Uncertain, and Likely to Get Worse   The last thirty years have convinced me that healthcare, political issues, controversial social issues, and economics are connected in ways that can’t be...
Healthcare Musings For April 11, 2025

Healthcare Musings For April 11, 2025

April 11, 2025 Dear Interested Readers.   Warning!   This has been such a turbulent week for the president, the country, economies of every country in the world, and healthcare here in America that I have needed to do three rewrites. There may be a few...
Healthcare Musings For April 4, 2025

Healthcare Musings For April 4, 2025

April 4, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   Liberation Day?   I did not have the stomach to watch President Trump’s pronouncement of his tariff determinations during a gathering of his sycophants in a Rose Garden ceremony late Wednesday afternoon. My guess is...
Healthcare Musings For March 28, 2025

Healthcare Musings For March 28, 2025

March 28, 2025 Dear Interesed Readers,   Weird, Confusing, and Ultimately Very Problematic   “You can’t make this stuff up” is one of the most overused and tired clichĂ©s in our language, but it has popped into my mind almost every day during the first two...
Healthcare Musings For March 21, 2025

Healthcare Musings For March 21, 2025

March 21, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   A Constitutional Crisis? And Other Practical And Moral Injuries   Most presidents use the “honeymoon” of the first one hundred days of a new term to get much of their campaign agenda translated into laws that might...
Healthcare Musing For March 14, 2025

Healthcare Musing For March 14, 2025

March 14, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   Radical Versus Rational Change   Donald Trump roared into office claiming that he had a mandate for radical changes in government structure and policy that his supporters believed would “make America great again.” He...
Healthcare Musings For March 7, 2025

Healthcare Musings For March 7, 2025

March 7, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   Our Healthcare Is Threatened By “Right-wing Woke”    I wish I was creative enough to have coined the phrase “right-wing woke,” but the honor belongs to New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. I knew that he had “hit...