A Perspective From the Other Side of the Sheet

A Perspective From the Other Side of the Sheet

by | Jun 11, 2019 | a personal testimony, and Underuse of Care, Burnout, Delivery, Healthcare in 2019, Medical Quality, Practice Improvement, Professional Satisfaction, The Triple Aim

In 1991 William Hurt starred in an interesting movie called “The Doctor.” The plot was simple. A highly skilled and well respected, but egotistical and self centered surgeon gets cancer. You follow him through his discovery of compassion as he contends with his own...
4 June 2019: Improving the Health of the Nation Through The Green New Deal

4 June 2019: Improving the Health of the Nation Through The Green New Deal

by | Jun 4, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, Economic inequality, Healthcare as a Right, Justice Democrats, Medicare For All, New Consensus, Rihanna Gunn Wright, The Green New Deal

Sometimes it feels to me like there are too many balls in the air. Back when I was practicing medicine, a time that is quickly fading from view as I try to use the rearview mirror of memory, I would categorize my colleagues by the way they approached problems as...