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Healthcare Musings For 21 December 2018

Healthcare Musings For 21 December 2018

by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 21, 2018 | Dr. Tom Lee, Evidence Based Medicine, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Interpersonal Medicine, Practice Improvement, professional fulfillment

21 December 2018   Dear Interested Readers,   Finding the Balance in Practice   I have known and respected Dr. Tom Lee, the Chief Medical Officer of Press Ganey, since he was a house officer and cardiology fellow at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in...

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Categories

  • "Caste." Racism
  • "concepts of a plan"
  • "Humankind:A Hopeful History"
  • "I Have A Dream" speach
  • "If–" by Rudyard Kipling
  • "Joy in Medicine?"
  • "Medical Taylorism"
  • "Pants on Fire Lies"
  • "The Doctor" by Sir Luke Fildes
  • "Wicked Problems" in Healthcare
  • “The Commonwealth Fund Task Force on Payment and Delivery System Reform:
  • 1.9 Trillion Dollar COVID Stimulus Bill
  • 118th Congress
  • 1968
  • 2018 Midterm Elections
  • 2020 Presidential Debates
  • 2022 midterm elections
  • 2024 Democratic National Convention
  • 2024 elections
  • 2028 elections
  • 2nd Amendment Rights
  • 340B
  • 9/11
  • A Brief History of the Last One Hundred Years Of Healthcare
  • A dysfunctional House
  • A personal history
  • A personal history of social change
  • a personal testimony
  • a pink ripple
  • A Promised Land By Barack Obama
  • A red wave
  • A story from my life
  • a woman's right to make reproductive health choices
  • A Wonderful Day In The Neighborhood
  • Abortion
  • ACA
  • Access
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  • Active Listening
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  • Actor-Network
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  • Advent and Christmas
  • Ageism
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  • AI in healthcare
  • Alabama's Abortion Law
  • Alternative Quality Contract
  • Amanda Gordon
  • Amazon
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  • ambulatory care-sensitive conditions (ACSCs)
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  • America's defective social safety net
  • America's dependence on foreign medical graduates
  • American exceptionalism
  • American Medical Association
  • American Oligarchs
  • American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
  • Amitai Etzioni
  • amoral realism
  • Amy Klobuchar
  • amyloidosis
  • and healthcare
  • and Underuse of Care
  • Angus Deaton and Anne Case
  • Anne Applebaum
  • anti semitism
  • anti-racism
  • anti-vaxxers
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  • Apollo 11
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  • Azovstal steel factory
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  • Bernard Lown
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  • Better Care and Reconciliation Act of 2017
  • Biases
  • Biases in diagnostic thinking
  • Biden and Trump debate
  • Biden's Advocacy For Gun Control Legislation
  • Biden's American Families Plan
  • Biden's forgiveness of some student loans
  • Biden's Transformation
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  • Big Data
  • Big Five Tech Companies Invade Healthcare
  • Bill Gates
  • Bill Rodgers
  • Billionaires in Trump's Administration
  • Bipartisan Healthcare Process
  • Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
  • Black History Month
  • Black Lives Matter
  • Black Power
  • Block Island
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
  • Blunders on the Way to the Pandemic
  • Boston Marathon
  • Boston Medical Center
  • Bret Kavanaugh
  • Bret Stephens
  • Brett Kavanaugh
  • Brian Thompson
  • Brigham and Women's
  • Budget Reconciliation
  • Build Back Better
  • Build Back Better Bill
  • Burnout
  • burnout and professional fulfillment
  • C-19
  • C.T. Vivian
  • Capitalism
  • capitation
  • Cardinal Cushing
  • care of the frail elderly
  • Career development
  • CARES Act
  • Carilion Clinic
  • Carol Emmott
  • Carter's Camp David Peace Accords
  • Carter's Crisis of Confidence speech
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  • Cass Sunstein
  • Chaos in the House
  • Chapter 224
  • Charity
  • Charles Handy
  • Charles Kenney
  • Charlie Baker
  • Chat GPT
  • ChatGPT
  • Child Tax Credit
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  • CHIP
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  • Christian Nationalism
  • chronic disease management
  • Civility
  • Clay Christensen
  • Climate Crisis
  • Clinician Action Network
  • CMMI
  • Co-opetition
  • Cokie Roberts
  • Colleagues
  • Collective Action Problems
  • CommonHealth
  • Communitarianism
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  • Community Needs Assessments
  • compassion fatigue
  • compensation
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  • Computers In Healthcare
  • Concerns about Biden's fitness for office
  • concierge care
  • Confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett
  • Conflict in Gaza
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  • connectedness
  • Consequences of repealing Roe v. Wade
  • Conservative Values
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  • Continuous Improvement
  • Contoocook Carry Community Fund
  • coronavirus
  • Costa Rica's remarkable healthcare system
  • Costs
  • COVID
  • COVID in New Hampshire
  • COVID stress on hospital resources
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  • Creative Destruction
  • Crimson Contagion
  • Critical Race Theory
  • Critical thinking
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  • Culture
  • culture wars
  • CVS
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  • D Day
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  • Daniel Kahneman
  • Dartmouth Health
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  • Data
  • David Blumenthal
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  • Dean Robert Ebert
  • debt ceiling
  • Declaration of Geneva
  • Deep Medicine
  • DEI
  • Delivery
  • Democracy on the Ballot
  • democracy versus illiberalism
  • Democratic control of the House
  • Democratic Presidential Debates
  • Denial nurse
  • denials of payments
  • Dennis Ross
  • Denver Health
  • Depression
  • DeSantis attacks diversity
  • Dialog Across the Divide
  • Diane Gilworth
  • Digitaal Health Access
  • discontinuous change
  • diseases of despair
  • disinformation
  • Disruptive Innovation
  • Diversity
  • Diversity Equity Inclusion
  • Dobbs v. Jackson
  • doctor shortage
  • DOGE
  • Don Berwick
  • Don't Look Up
  • Donald Guthrie
  • Donald Trump
  • Donald Trump's admiration of Putin
  • Donald Trump's future
  • Donald Trump's management of COVID-19
  • Donald Trump's Reaction to Demonstrations
  • Donald Trump's Reluctance to accept the outcome of the election
  • Doomscrolling
  • Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Dr Joel Alpert
  • Dr. Aaron Carroll
  • Dr. Anita Ung
  • Dr. Anthony DiGioia
  • Dr. Anthony Fauci
  • Dr. Bernard Lown
  • Dr. Bruce Perry
  • Dr. Charles Magraw
  • Dr. Charles White
  • Dr. Claude Welch
  • Dr. Clifford Marks
  • Dr. Daniel Dawes
  • Dr. Daniel Funkenstein
  • Dr. David Blumenthal
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  • Dr. Deborah Birx
  • Dr. Ed Murphy
  • Dr. Edward Freis
  • Dr. Edward Masters
  • Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal
  • Dr. Elizabeth Rourke
  • Dr. Eric Reinhardt
  • Dr. Eric Topol
  • Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel
  • Dr. Frank Gabrin
  • Dr. Gary Kaplan
  • Dr. Geoffrey Hirsovitz
  • Dr. George Thorn
  • Dr. George Vaillant
  • Dr. Glenn Steele
  • Dr. H. Richard Nesson
  • Dr. Harold Levine
  • Dr. Harris Berman
  • Dr. Hermann Blumgart
  • Dr. Hunter Rentz
  • Dr. James Dalen
  • Dr. Jennifer Leaning
  • Dr. Joe Alpert
  • Dr. Joe Dorsey
  • Dr. Joe Kimura
  • Dr. Joel Alpert
  • Dr. John Enders
  • Dr. John Toussaint
  • Dr. Jonathan Metzl
  • Dr. Joseph Betancourt
  • Dr. Kate Koplan
  • Dr. Kimberly Becher
  • Dr. Lee Younger
  • Dr. Lewis Dexter
  • Dr. Li Wenliang
  • Dr. Lisa Rosenbaum
  • Dr. Lorna Breen
  • Dr. Lyle Micheli
  • Dr. Marc Bard
  • Dr. Mark Stockman
  • Dr. Marshall Wolf
  • Dr. Marshall Wolfe
  • Dr. Merrill Sosman
  • Dr. Michael Lesch
  • Dr. Neil Berman
  • Dr. Oz
  • Dr. Patty Gabow
  • Dr. Paul Batalden
  • Dr. Paul Farmer
  • Dr. Paul Solomon
  • Dr. Peter Cohn
  • Dr. Richard Gorlin
  • Dr. Rick Gilfillan
  • Dr. Rick Lopez
  • Dr. Robert Coes and the Call of Service
  • Dr. Robert Coles and the "Call of Service"
  • Dr. Robert Ebert
  • Dr. Robert Pearl
  • Dr. Robin Atlas
  • Dr. Rochelle Walensky
  • Dr. Ruby Payne
  • Dr. Samuel Shem
  • Dr. Sandro Galea
  • Dr. Scott Gottlieb
  • Dr. Sigrid Tischler
  • Dr. Soma Weiss
  • Dr. Stanley Goldfarb
  • Dr. Steven Schroeder
  • Dr. Tom Lee
  • Dr. Vivek Murthy
  • Dr. Walter Murphy
  • Dr.Anthony DiGioia
  • Dr.Kevin McGuire
  • Dr.Zeev Neuwirth
  • Drew Altman
  • Drugs/ Fentanyl
  • DSL initiatives
  • Dualism
  • Dying Broke
  • Dying of Whiteness
  • Dylan Scott
  • E. Stanley Jones
  • E.J. Dione
  • Earth Day
  • eclipse of the sun
  • Economic Implications of COVID-19
  • Economic inequality
  • Edison and Ford
  • Education and The Pandemic
  • Effective altruism
  • election denial
  • election scenarios
  • Elizabeth McGlynn
  • Elizabeth Warren
  • Elizabeth Warren's Medicare for All Plan
  • Elon Musk
  • emergency room work
  • Emerging from the pandemic
  • Emily Benfer
  • Emily Brower
  • Empathy
  • employed physicians
  • Employer Provided Health Insurance
  • Enlightenment Now
  • Entitlements
  • Epic
  • EQ
  • equal justice
  • Equity
  • Era 3: the moral era
  • Eric Holder
  • Eric Reinhardt
  • Erik Erikson
  • ESG
  • Essential Workers
  • evangelical support of Donald Trump
  • Eve Shapiro
  • Evictions
  • Evidence Based Medicine
  • Ex-President Trump
  • Eyal Press
  • Ezra Klein
  • Family Health Project
  • Family Practice
  • Fani Willis
  • fear in the medical workplace
  • Featured Post
  • Fee for service payment
  • Fellowship training
  • Financial challenges of primary care.
  • Finding Wisdom and Strength In the Arts
  • Fiona Hill
  • First Amendment implications for medical practice
  • Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023
  • flood-the-zone strategy
  • Florida Memories
  • food Insecurity
  • For The People Act
  • Former Senator Max Cleland
  • Fox News
  • FQHCs
  • Francis Peabody and "The Care of the Patient"
  • Franz Jägerstätter
  • Frederick Buechner
  • Frederick Douglass
  • French Healthcare
  • Future of Heathcare
  • Garrison Keillor
  • Geisinger Health
  • General James Mattis
  • General Mark Milley
  • George Floyd
  • George H. W. Bush
  • George Saunders
  • Georgia rally
  • Georgia's runoff election for two Senate seats
  • Glenn Hackbarth
  • Global Health
  • Global Warming
  • Governor Abbott
  • Governor Charles Baker of Massachusetts
  • Governor Chris Sununu
  • Governor Ron DeSantis
  • Governor Tim Walz
  • gridlock
  • Groundhog Day/film
  • Guest Contributor
  • Gun Violence
  • Gun Violence as a Public Health Problem
  • Guns In the Home
  • Guthrie Clinic
  • Guthrie Health
  • Hakeem Jeffries
  • Hamas
  • Hands Across the Hills
  • Hanukkah
  • Happiness
  • Harvard "Strike" 1969
  • Harvard Community Health Plan
  • Harvard Medical School
  • Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
  • Harvard Vanguard Medical
  • Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates
  • Haven Healthcare
  • Hawaii's Doctor Shortage
  • Health and Healthcare
  • Health and Human Services
  • Health Care Policy in the Wake of COVID-19
  • Health Care Transformation Task Force
  • Health in America
  • Healthcare as a Right
  • Healthcare challenges for the "Twenties'
  • healthcare disparities
  • healthcare disparitiies
  • Healthcare equity
  • healthcare finance
  • healthcare for the rural and urban poor
  • Healthcare in 2019
  • Healthcare in Rural America
  • Healthcare Mergers
  • Healthcare Musings Archive
  • Healthcare Outcomes
  • Healthcare Policy
  • Healthcare Quality
  • Healthcare Transformation
  • healthcare under Trump
  • Healthcare's report card
  • Hearings of House Committee on January 6
  • Heather McGhee
  • Heisenberg's uncertainty principle
  • herd immunity
  • Hill-Burton
  • Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
  • Hippocratic Oath
  • History of Healthcare Reform
  • Home testing for COVID
  • Homelessness and Health
  • Honoring Caregivers in the Fight Against COVID-19
  • Hope
  • Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process
  • hospital closings in rural America
  • Hospital Utilization
  • hospitalist
  • House hearings on the January 6 attack on the Capital.
  • Housing shortages as a social determinant of health
  • How The Mighty Fall
  • How To Anti-Racist
  • How To Be An Antiracist
  • hyper individualism
  • hyperpartisanship
  • I have been to the mountaintop speech
  • Ibram X. Kendi
  • Ibram X.Kendi
  • ignoring prudence while reopening the economy
  • Illiberalism
  • immigration/ illegal immigrants
  • Impeachment Hearings
  • Impeachment of Donald Trump
  • Implicit Bias
  • Improving Ambulatory Practice
  • improving the delivery of care
  • Improving the health of the poor
  • In the Bleak Midwinter
  • Inclusion
  • Increase health care delivery systems’ preparedness for health disasters.
  • Incremental healthcare improvement
  • Inequality
  • Inequality in Healthcare
  • Inflation
  • infrastructure inadequacies
  • Innovation
  • Innovation in Healthcare
  • insurance denials
  • Interdependence
  • Interoperability
  • Interpersonal Medicine
  • intersectionality
  • Intrinsic and Extrinsic Sources of Motivation
  • Invisible Americans: The Tragic Cost of Child Poverty
  • J.D. Vance
  • James Carville
  • Jamie Dimon and JP Morgan Chase
  • January 6 attack on the Capitol
  • Jeffrey Brenner
  • Jennifer Rubin
  • Jill Lepore
  • JIm Collins
  • Jimmy Carter
  • Jimmy Csrter's funeral
  • Joe Biden
  • Joe Biden and the Future
  • Joe Biden's aggressive agenda
  • Joe Biden's coordination of the west's response to Putin's invasion of Ukraine
  • Joe Biden's housing initiative
  • Joe Biden's Inauguration
  • Joe Knowles
  • Joe Manchin
  • John Bolton
  • John Bolton's assertions
  • John Lewis
  • John Lewis Voting Rights Act
  • John McCain
  • Jon Ward
  • Jonathan Haidt
  • Joseph  Schumpeter
  • Joy
  • Joy in Practice
  • Judge Amy Coney Barrett
  • Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson
  • Judge O'Connor's threat to the ACA
  • Judy Faulkner
  • Juneteenth
  • Justice Amy Coney Barrett
  • Justice Barrett
  • Justice Democrats
  • Justice Gorsuch
  • Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  • Justin Locke
  • Kaiser Family Fund (KFF)
  • Kaiser Health
  • Kamala Harris
  • Kamala Harris' campaign for president
  • Kamala Harris' parents
  • Kamala Harris's inspiring concession
  • Karen McDougal
  • Kars for Kearsarge
  • Kearsage Regional Ecumenical Ministries
  • Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners
  • Kearsarge Neighborhood Partnership
  • Ken Paulus
  • Kerner Commission
  • Kevin McCarthy
  • Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Kristen Welker
  • Kubler-Ross steps
  • LaShyra Nolen.
  • law of inverse care
  • LEAD
  • Leadership
  • Lean
  • legal restrictions on medical practice
  • Leon Kass
  • lessons from the 1918 pandemic
  • lethal wet bulb temps
  • Letter From A Birmingham Jail
  • Letter From The Birmingham Jail
  • Lewis Thomas
  • Lewiston
  • Lfe expectancy
  • Liberal Values
  • Liberalism
  • Life Expectancy
  • Life Expectancy in America
  • Linda Villarosa
  • Listening
  • Listening to Your Life
  • Loneliness
  • Long Term Service and Support
  • Low Value Care
  • Lowell General Hospital
  • Lynn Community Health Center
  • MACRA
  • MAGA
  • Maggie Haberman
  • Maid by Stephanie Land
  • Majority-Minority
  • Make America Healthy Again
  • Making America Great Again
  • mandate of hope
  • Manifest Destiny
  • March on Washington For Jobs and Freedom
  • march-in-rights
  • Marcus Borg
  • Mariane Williamson
  • Marina Ovsyannikova
  • Marine LePen
  • Mariupol
  • Mark Twain's wisdom
  • Martha Bebinger
  • Martin Luther King Jr
  • Mary Lou Retton
  • Mary Oliver
  • Mass General Brigham
  • Mass General Brigham Health Care
  • Mass Shooting in Buffalo
  • Mass shooting in Lewiston
  • Mass shootings as an epidemic
  • Massachusetts Blue Cross
  • Massachusetts Health Policy Commision
  • MassHealth
  • Match Day
  • maternal and infant mortality
  • Matt Gaetz
  • Matthew Desmond
  • Maui Fires
  • Maxine Stanesa
  • MD
  • Medicaid
  • Medicaid Managed Care
  • Medicaid post COVID
  • Medicaid Reform
  • Medicaid work requirements
  • medical care in small-town America
  • medical education
  • medical group politics
  • medical home
  • medical oaths
  • Medical Professionalism
  • Medical Quality
  • Medical-Moral Sensibilities
  • Medicare Advantage
  • Medicare For All
  • Medicare For All Who Want It
  • Medicare Reform
  • Memorial Day 2020
  • Mental Health Systems Act of 1980
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Merrick Garland
  • metitocracy
  • Michael Cohen's Testimony
  • Michelle Obama
  • Mick Mulvaney
  • microsystems
  • Middle East Issues and COVID-19
  • Mike Dukakis
  • Mindset
  • Misinformation
  • modernism
  • Moneyball
  • Moral Injury
  • Moral Minds
  • Moral sensibilities in healthcare
  • Morning in America
  • Mr. Rogers
  • MSSP
  • Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy
  • My mother's lessons
  • narcissism
  • Nate Silver
  • National Health Service
  • National Physicians Alliance
  • Never Events
  • New Consensus
  • New England Journal of Medicine
  • New Hampshire Presidential Primary
  • News
  • Nicholas Kristof
  • Nikki Haley
  • Nikole Hannah-Jones
  • non profit healthcare institutions
  • Non Violence
  • Non Zero
  • Nonprofit
  • Norman Rockwell's The Doctor and the Doll
  • nursing homes
  • Nursing Ratios
  • Nursing Shortages
  • Nutrition as a primary cause of disease and death
  • Obama's The Promised Land
  • Omicron variant
  • Opioid Epidemic
  • Oprah Winfrey
  • Optum Health
  • out of pocket healthcare costs
  • Overton's Window
  • paid family leave
  • Pandemic Management
  • Parker Hill Medical Center
  • Partners For Community Wellness
  • Partners Health Care
  • Path of Totality
  • patient centered care
  • Patient Engagement
  • Paul Krugman
  • Paul Levy
  • Paul Romer
  • Payment Models
  • Per Scholas
  • Persist by Elizabeth Warren
  • Personal responses to the challenges of COVID-19
  • Pete Hegseth
  • Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
  • Peter Bloch
  • Physician Council of HCHP
  • physician culture
  • Physician/Management "Compacts"
  • physicians in labor unions
  • Pilgrim Health Care
  • Pioneer ACO
  • Pluralism
  • Point 32 Health
  • Polarization in America
  • Polio and The Salk Vaccine
  • Political "norms"
  • political determinants of health
  • political identity
  • political polarization
  • Politics
  • Politics and Healthcare
  • Population Health
  • Population Health Management
  • Populism
  • Post Polio Syndrome
  • postmodernism
  • Poverty
  • Poverty and healthcare
  • PPO contracts
  • Practice Improvement
  • pre existing conditions
  • President Biden's address after withdrawing from the election
  • President Biden's withdrawal from the election
  • President Trump
  • President Volodymyr Zelensky’
  • Presidential Politics
  • Preventative Care
  • Primary Care
  • Primary Care Challenges
  • Primary Day in New Hampshire
  • Principles of Stupidity
  • private equity purchases in healthcare
  • Process Improvement
  • professional fulfillment
  • professional responsibilities in conflict with personal beliefs
  • Professional Satisfaction
  • Professionalism
  • Professor Heather Cox Richardson
  • Progressive Values
  • Project 2025
  • Proposal for a new Federal Healthcare Board
  • Proposal of A Federal Health Board
  • public Demonstrations Against Racism and Police Brutality
  • Public Health
  • Public Option
  • Purchasing
  • Putin's Invasion of Ukraine
  • Putin's war in Ukraine
  • pysanky
  • QAnon
  • Quadruple Aim
  • Quality
  • Queen Elizabeth
  • R.F.K.
  • Racial Inequality
  • Racism in America
  • racist policy v. racism
  • Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Ray Suarez
  • REACH ACO
  • Reference Materials
  • Reform
  • relationalism
  • Remember the Alamo
  • Remembering 9/11
  • renewed risk for the use of nuclear weapons
  • Reopening the economy
  • Repeal and Replace
  • Replacement Theory
  • Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene
  • Reproductive Rights
  • Republican Control of the House
  • Republican efforts to limit voting rights
  • Republican National Convention
  • Republican Platform for 2024
  • Republican reluctance to accept the results of the election.
  • Resilience
  • Resources
  • Retrograde Mercury
  • Reverend Jeremiah Wright
  • Richard Rohr
  • Rihanna Gunn Wright
  • Riots in the Capital
  • Riots of 1967
  • Roanne Weisman
  • Robert F. Kennedy
  • Robert Greenleaf
  • Robert Kennedy Jr.
  • Robert Mueller's Testimony
  • Robert Potter
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • Roe v. Wade
  • Roe v. Wade is overturned
  • rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine
  • Ronald Reagan
  • Rosalynn Carter
  • rural healthcare
  • Russell Moore
  • Rutgar Bregman
  • Rutger Bregman and Humankind: A hopeful History
  • RVUs
  • Safety Net Institutions
  • Sarah Kliff
  • Saving Democracy
  • Sean Illing
  • Selection of the Speaker of the House
  • selling plasma as income for the poor
  • Senate Republicans' plans to block or delay the confirmation of Joe Biden
  • Senator Jeff Merkley
  • Senator Joe Manchin
  • Senator Kyrsten Sinema
  • Senator Mitch McConnell
  • servant leadership
  • shadowing
  • Shared Medical Appointments
  • significance of March 11
  • Simpler
  • Single payer
  • Siri
  • Sister Joan Chittister
  • Six Domains of Quality
  • Six Sigma
  • Skepticism about the COVID-19 Vaccine
  • Slavery's Capitalism
  • Small town medical practice
  • SNAP
  • Social Determinants of Health
  • Social Distancing
  • Social Gatherings with Colleagues
  • Social Security Disability under Reagan
  • Southern Baptist sex abuse scandal
  • Southern Baptists
  • Speaker Mike Johnson
  • St. James
  • Staffing issues in rural healthcare
  • State of the Union Address
  • states' rights
  • Stein's Law
  • Stephen Colbert
  • Steve Allenby
  • Steward Health Care
  • Stock Market
  • Stormy Daniels
  • Strategy
  • Strategy Formation
  • Structural Determinants of Health
  • structural racism in medicine
  • Surgeon General Jerome Adams
  • Surprise Medical Bills
  • Susan Rice
  • Sustainability
  • synthesis
  • System Consolidation
  • Systemic Racism
  • Systemness
  • Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • TARP
  • Tax reform
  • Tax Reform and Healthcare
  • Taylor Swift
  • team based care
  • Ted Kennedy
  • telehealth
  • Texas Medical Center
  • The "virtual" Democratic Convention
  • The 1619 Project
  • The 2020 election
  • The 2020 elections
  • The 2024 Presidential Election
  • The American Families Act
  • The American Jobs Act
  • The Attack on the Capitol
  • The Best Practice: How The New Quality Movement Is Transforming Medicine
  • The Book of Charlie
  • The Canadian Experiment With UBI
  • The Care Experience
  • the centrality of Primary Care
  • The centrality of the Constitution
  • The Challenges of Thanksgiving conversations
  • The Challenges to Be Met If We to Have Universal Coverage
  • The Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • The Commonwealth Fund
  • The Commonwealth Fund Task Force on Payment and Delivery System Reform
  • The conflict between Israel and Hamas
  • The conflict in Gaza
  • The Cutter Incident
  • The de emphasis of public health
  • The Debt Ceiling Crisis
  • The Democratic Convention
  • The Democratic presidential candidates
  • the difficulties of change
  • the economy and inflation
  • The election of Joe Biden
  • the equal protection clause
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