Healthcare Musings For December 6, 2024

Healthcare Musings For December 6, 2024

December 6, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Thinking About Healthcare During A Season of Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love In Conflict With Disappointment, Conflict and Fear    My lake is frozen. There is snow on the ground. The sky is clear. There is abundant...
Healthcare Musings For September 6, 2024

Healthcare Musings For September 6, 2024

6 September 2024  Dear Interested Readers,   The Healthcare Challenges In Small-town and Rural America Are Coming To The City   If you live in rural America, a small town, or in a less desirable neighborhood in America, your access to primary care, your...
Healthcare Musings For June 14, 2024

Healthcare Musings For June 14, 2024

June 14, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Reflections On This Moment In Healthcare   When I began to write these Friday letters sixteen years ago in mid-February 2008,  it was much easier than my task now. All I needed to do then to discover plenty to write...
Healthcare Musings For April 12, 2024

Healthcare Musings For April 12, 2024

April 12, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   I Don’t Understand Why Healthcare Isn’t A Top Political Issue   My adventures in healthcare continued this week with my much-anticipated first post-op appointment with my surgeon at Dartmouth which was three weeks...
Healthcare Musings: March 22, 2024

Healthcare Musings: March 22, 2024

March 22, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   The Shortest Friday Letter Ever   As directed, my wife and I arrived at 9:15 at the Dartmouth same-day surgical unit last Monday.  The process was very smooth. I was given a hospital gown, little booties, and a paper...
Healthcare Musings For March 8, 2024

Healthcare Musings For March 8, 2024

March 8, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   A Better Understanding of Moral Injury   My long journey this year exploring the origins of my medical-moral sensibilities was inspired by an article that first appeared in the Sunday New York Times Magazine last June...