Healthcare Musings For April 21, 2023

Healthcare Musings For April 21, 2023

April 21, 2023 Dear Interested Readers,   My First Encounter With Chat GPT: I Welcome the Use of AI in Medicine.     When I joined Harvard Community Health Plan in 1975 I was well aware of the fact that I was joining an active experiment that was...
Healthcare Musings For February 3, 2023

Healthcare Musings For February 3, 2023

February 3, 2023 Dear Interested Readers,   At 11:31 AM on Tuesday, it was 23 degrees where I live. I was enjoying the almost cloudless sky and bright sunlight. I was out “early” for my walk because the temperature was falling fast. I knew it would be less than...
Healthcare Musings For January 27, 2023

Healthcare Musings For January 27, 2023

January 27, 2023 Dear Interested Readers,   Financial Troubles, Workforce Concerns, Access Issues, and Concerns For Quality of Care   One of my biggest post-pandemic surprises is that healthcare has moved down, not up, on the cascade of concerns that worry...
Healthcare Musings For November 25, 2022

Healthcare Musings For November 25, 2022

November 25, 202 Dear Interested Readers,   In Memoriam J.L.D.   Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!   Alfred Lord Tennyson worked for seventeen years to produce his very famous poem “In Memorium A.H.H.” which...
Healthcare Musings For September 9, 2022

Healthcare Musings For September 9, 2022

September 9, 2022 Dear Interested Readers,   Musing About ACO Disappointments   This week I have been thinking, or more accurately “musing,”  about the current status of ACOs. “Musing” seems to me to be a word that has more depth and feeling than “thinking”,...
Healthcare Musings For September 24, 2021

Healthcare Musings For September 24, 2021

  September 24, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   Thinking About the (Compromised) Future of Primary Care   I have always thought of myself as a primary care physician. When I joined the practice at Harvard Community Health Plan as their only cardiologist...