Healthcare Musings For 22 March 2019

Healthcare Musings For 22 March 2019

  22 March 2019   Dear Interested Readers,   Musing With Friends About Healthcare   This week’s letter lives up to the title of “Healthcare Musings.” The dictionary says that musings are periods of reflection or thought. I would add that when I am...
Healthcare Musing For 1 March 2019

Healthcare Musing For 1 March 2019

1 March 2019   Dear Interested Readers   Learning A New Way Of Being In The World Together   This week has been chock-full of important events that fall along the path of our common journey in troubled times. I am not referring to the debate over the...
Michelle Obama’s and Robert Ebert’s Concerns About The Health of the Poor

Michelle Obama’s and Robert Ebert’s Concerns About The Health of the Poor

Much has been written in recent years about medicine and the physician…A cursory survey of what has been written…permits the conclusion that medical science comes off rather well and the doctor’s image not so well. One gains the impression that doctors as...
Healthcare Musings for 31 August 2018

Healthcare Musings for 31 August 2018

31 August 2018 Dear Interested Readers, Whataboutism, Pivoting, Economic Injustice, and Healthcare Lately I have been asking people in my circle of acquaintances what they think about “whataboutism.” I have gotten many blank stares which indicates to me that some...
Understanding How the Amazing Success of the 9.9 Percent is a Risk to Better Healthcare for Everyone

Understanding How the Amazing Success of the 9.9 Percent is a Risk to Better Healthcare for Everyone

I saw aristocracy up close at Harvard Medical School. I quickly realized that some of my classmates were from families that were either power brokers in New York or Washington, or were the elite of American medicine. I discerned that I had been slotted into the class...