Healthcare Musings For August 28, 2020

Healthcare Musings For August 28, 2020

  August 28, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, From Here to the Election, Expect the Unusual and Bizarre   It has been a violent and disturbing week as we have witnessed yet more dramatic displays of the effect of our continuing abuse of the environment and our...
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...
A Week Of Loss, A Time For Remembrance And Dedication

A Week Of Loss, A Time For Remembrance And Dedication

  In the week immediately following their deaths on the same day, it would be hard to write a post in the age of Black Lives Matter and our increasing awareness of the role of white privilege and economic inequality in the persistence of healthcare disparities...
The Lessons Just Keep Coming

The Lessons Just Keep Coming

  The president taught me something this week. I was not surprised when I heard that his campaign speech at Mount Rushmore was a dark and divisive presentation. I was very surprised, and a bit supercilious, when I heard that his rath came down on “far left”...
Are We On the Threshold of a Great Awakening?

Are We On the Threshold of a Great Awakening?

  The header for this post should look familiar since last Friday’s post featured a very similar picture. The picture on last Friday had been taken on the previous Tuesday evening when about 200 people gathered on the New London Town Green to demonstrate their...
Healthcare Musings For June 5, 2020

Healthcare Musings For June 5, 2020

  June 5, 2020 Dear Interested Readers,   It’s Never Been This Late Before   Many times during my practice life I would try to have a conversation with a patient about some change in lifestyle or a choice that they might make to avoid some future...