Healthcare Musings For 29 November 2019

Healthcare Musings For 29 November 2019

  29 November 2019 Dear Interested Readers,   Have You Heard Enough In The Democratic Debates About Healthcare?    It’s been a little more than a week since most of the Democratic contenders for the nomination for president gathered in Atlanta for their...
Tips On Avoiding Controversy At The Thanksgiving Table

Tips On Avoiding Controversy At The Thanksgiving Table

  Family dinners are much of the “glue” that holds my family together. The picture in today’s header was not taken at a Thanksgiving gathering but it is an excellent representation of the many gatherings around my mother’s table that I cherish in memory. This...
Chronic Disease Management and the Challenges of Impending Workforce Shortages

Chronic Disease Management and the Challenges of Impending Workforce Shortages

  The header for today’s post is a picture of a couple, both in their nineties, who are patiently waiting for a doctor’s appointment. I know a lot about this couple. They are my parents. They were in the vanguard of a growing movement, seniors living into their...
Healthcare Musings For 15 November 2019

Healthcare Musings For 15 November 2019

15 November 2019 Dear Interested Readers,   More Thoughts on Professionalism and Primary Care   I enjoyed writing last Tuesday about healthcare in Hawaii and the Hawaiian expression of our nationwide problems in primary care staffing. When I write my...