Physicians and the “Wicked Problems” of Healthcare
For several years after I moved into administration I was a regular attendee of the twice yearly meetings of the Group Practice Improvement Network. GPIN’s description of itself is straight forward: GPIN is a nonprofit organization created in 1993 by the...
Healthcare Musings For 7 December 2018
7 December 2018 Dear Interested Readers, A Potpourri of Feelings and Observations Some weeks it is beyond my ability to finally decide on one subject for these notes. It occurs to me that most weeks this letter to you does not live up to its billing as “musings;”...
Is “Medicare For All” A Real Possibility?
Last Wednesday my wife and I drove down to Boston so that she could do a little holiday shopping with a friend while I saw the nurse practitioner who was going to do my periodic health review and give me a flu shot. Somewhere between New London and Concord on...
Healthcare Musings for 30 November 2018
30 November 2018 Dear Interested Readers, Hidden Tribes and the Future of Healthcare Last spring I read The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided By Politics and Religion. It was written by Jonathan Haidt who is a “moral and political”...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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