A Perspective From the Other Side of the Sheet
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...
Healthcare Musings For 31 May 2019
31 May 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Relationalism and the Joy of Practice I imagine that other retirees do what I do and spend a lot of time thinking about what happened during the years of their careers. The goal is to be able to say, “It wasn’t...
Experiencing Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness in Healthcare
Thomas Jefferson was a master of the memorable phrase. His masterpiece was The Declaration of Independence. The first paragraph is a very powerful introduction to a reason for action, “When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to...
Healthcare Musings For 15 March 2019
15 March 2019 Dear Interested Readers, An Introduction To Deep Medicine Rapid advances in the information sciences, coupled with the political commitment to broad extensions of health care, promise to bring about basic changes in the structure of...
Remembering Colleagues and Culture
Every now and then I see an obituary or read an article in a journal that can send me back in time more than forty years in my professional life and up to seventy years in the totality of life. There is a big “scrapbook” in my brain where I log a lot of “screen time.”...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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