Healthcare Musings For September 4, 2020

Healthcare Musings For September 4, 2020

September 4, 2020 Dear Interested Readers,   Our Biggest Threat Is Our Incompetence   This is a week when we get a treat. Atul Gawande has published another insightful article built on a position that he has expressed before. On several occasions Gawande has...
Contemplating The The Future of Healthcare Outcomes and of Healthcare Disparities In A Second Trump Term

Contemplating The The Future of Healthcare Outcomes and of Healthcare Disparities In A Second Trump Term

  The conventions are over, and the election lies 63 days, nine short weeks, into the future. It did not take President Trump long to hit the campaign trial. He landed at the Manchester Airport less than twenty four hours after desecrating the South Lawn of the...
A Revisionist Look Back, And A Dystopian Look Forward At The Republican Convention

A Revisionist Look Back, And A Dystopian Look Forward At The Republican Convention

  I haven’t been looking forward to this week with much excitement. It makes me very anxious to listen to the president speak. When I see ordinary people turn a blind eye to his deficiencies, especially his cruelties, I am disoriented, and become anxious...
Healthcare Musings For August 7, 2020

Healthcare Musings For August 7, 2020

  August 7, 2020 Dear Interested Readers,   The Pandemic’s Message To Us About Healthcare Policy   Earlier this week in a post entitled “The Peril We Face Has Been A Long Time Coming,” I reviewed an excellent article by Ed Jong who writes for The...
Healthcare Musings For July 24, 2020

Healthcare Musings For July 24, 2020

  July 24, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, We Are Not As “Exceptional” As We Thought   As a child, I developed a love of American history. My family traveled more extensively east of the Mississippi than to the west, but the east was the home of colonial...
Healthcare Musings For July 17, 2020

Healthcare Musings For July 17, 2020

  July 17, 2020 Dear Interested Readers,   Finding Hope In Strange Times   Can things get more bizarre in our deeply troubled and widely divided nation? Facing a pandemic that remains poorly understood and totally unpredictable, but might have stolen...