Healthcare Musings For March 15, 2024

Healthcare Musings For March 15, 2024

March 15, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Income From Quality   In the early years of this century after the near failure of Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare, there were very active conversations in Massachusetts about the cost, quality, and access to healthcare...
Healthcare Musings For March 8, 2024

Healthcare Musings For March 8, 2024

March 8, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   A Better Understanding of Moral Injury   My long journey this year exploring the origins of my medical-moral sensibilities was inspired by an article that first appeared in the Sunday New York Times Magazine last June...
Healthcare Musings For March 1, 2024

Healthcare Musings For March 1, 2024

March 1, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Quality Defined Us   I have gained a new perspective on how to structure what remains of the story of the development of my medical-moral sensibilities. The story up till now has been mostly delivered in chronological...
Healthcare Musings For February 23, 2024

Healthcare Musings For February 23, 2024

February 23, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Old Connections For Current Progress   When I look back on the almost six years that I was leading Harvard Vanguard and Atrius Health it is probably impossible for me to give each activity and each contributor...
Healthcare Musings For February 16, 2024

Healthcare Musings For February 16, 2024

February 16, 2024 Dear Interested Readers   Medical Ethics, Access, and Personal Experience   There are huge variations in care in America’s healthcare system. One has a different experience in quality, cost, and access, depending on your location and your...
Healthcare Musings For February 9, 2024

Healthcare Musings For February 9, 2024

February 9, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Reflections on Our History of Bias in Medicine and Experience Managing Chronic Diseases   Hospital I want to bring your attention to two recent articles in The New England Journal of Medicine.    The first...
Healthcare Musings For February 2, 2024

Healthcare Musings For February 2, 2024

February 2, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Is Healthcare Trapped In Its Own Groundhog Day Cycle?   My local newspaper has become a fertile field of thought and ideas for me. Last Monday, The Valley News, my local paper, had a front-page article that...
Healthcare Musings For January 26, 2024

Healthcare Musings For January 26, 2024

January 26, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Some Recent Articles of Interest   Finally, the New Hampshire Presidential Primary is over. I am relieved. Perhaps through the rest of the winter, as well as spring and summer, we will be free from the robocalls...
Healthcare Musings For January 19, 2024

Healthcare Musings For January 19, 2024

January 19, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   An Interesting Article In My Local Newspaper   Small-town newspapers are a dying public resource. A recent report from the PBS News Hour begins:   Over the past few decades, more than 2,000 newspapers across...
Healthcare Musings For January 12, 2024

Healthcare Musings For January 12, 2024

January 12, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Uncommon Greatness–Remembered   Monday, January 15, is the birthday of Dr. King. This is a rare year because the national holiday that honors his contributions to all of humankind falls on his birth date in...