A Request That Got Me Thinking About How We Practice
Recently my 97 year old father was readmitted to his local hospital in North Carolina with another episode of CHF and aspiration pneumonia. He was discharged to the rehab facility at his life care community on a Monday. My sister from Birmingham drove over and spent...
If Innovation Is the Answer, Do You Know What You Need To Know?
“Innovation” is frequently offered as the “way out of the woods” for American healthcare. And why not? As Americans we are reminded of the power of innovation to reshape our world many times a day as we tap on our cell phones to find our way through traffic to a place...
Poverty, Race and Poor Healthcare: The Toxic Combination that Threatens Us All
Over the last year the consideration of the social determinants of health has become my greatest professional interest. This shift in my thinking has not been because I have lost interest in or am less committed to the noble ideals and objectives of the Triple Aim,...
Trump’s Genius and Knowing What Divides Our Righteous Minds in Politics and Healthcare
Someday the presidency of Donald Trump will be a subject for historians. Whatever historians say, I am sure that they will begin the story long before we thought of Trump’s bid for the presidency as anything more than a joke. The story will not begin with a review of...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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