Healthcare Musings For May 28, 2021

Healthcare Musings For May 28, 2021

  May 28, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   Hope Needs A Plan: Moving Upstream From Quality, Safety, and the Triple Aim   About three paragraphs from the end of the main section of last Friday’s Healthcare Musings I wrote:   Since we have not had the...
Healthcare Musings For May 21, 2021

Healthcare Musings For May 21, 2021

  May 21, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   Getting Reoriented   I was surprised and delighted last Friday when Amazon delivered Elizabeth Warren’s new book, Persist, two days before its official publication date. I was eager to read what she had to say...
Healthcare Musings For May 14, 2021

Healthcare Musings For May 14, 2021

  May 14, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   What Is Joe Going to Do?   I am waiting to have President Biden give us more information about how he will move us closer to universal access to care. During the Democratic Presidential Primary Debates, one of...
A Strategy That Always Works

A Strategy That Always Works

  Last Friday’s letter was an attempt to begin to explore the relationships between what we chose to do and how we are compensated. I spent a long time backing into this difficult subject by going all the way back to 1965 and trying to draw some wisdom from my...
Healthcare Musings For April 9, 2021

Healthcare Musings For April 9, 2021

  April 9, 22021 Dear Interested Readers,   Preparing For Transformation   I have been feeling disoriented since the Biden/ Harris inauguration. For four years I had felt vulnerable to the mismanagement and outright inhumanity of a narcissistic wannabe...
Is the Ice Melting On Our Resistance To A Healthier, More Equitable Society?

Is the Ice Melting On Our Resistance To A Healthier, More Equitable Society?

  I will reveal a secret. I frequently don’t have a vision of what will be in these notes until I can decide on the picture in the header for the post. The picture often helps me pull the idea together. If a picture is worth a thousand words, perhaps a good...