Healthcare Musings For July 29, 2022

Healthcare Musings For July 29, 2022

July 29, 2022 Dear Interested Reader,   Do We Have The Will and Mindset To Improve Our World?   My Dad was a theologian who became a minister to earn a living. His sermons were built on his conservative theology and were full of stories. In his sermons, he...
Healthcare Musings For July 22, 2022

Healthcare Musings For July 22, 2022

22 July 2022 Dear Interested Readers,   Changing Perspectives   I have never been a reader of science fiction. I guess as close to being a science fiction enthusiast as I ever got was that as a preadolescent I enjoyed reading the Tom Swift books by Victor...
Healthcare Musings For July 15, 2022

Healthcare Musings For July 15, 2022

July 15, 2022 Dear Interested Readers,   Thoughts on Dualism, The “War of Attrition” in Ukraine, Inequality In Value-Based Reimbursement, and Inherent Biases in Medicine.    From time to time when I am thinking about all the human misery in the world that is...
Healthcare Musings For June 24, 2022

Healthcare Musings For June 24, 2022

June 24, 2022 Dear Interested Readers,   Slip Slidin’ Away   From time to time since election night in November 2016, I have found myself humming the melody of Paul Simon’s 1977 hit, “Slip Slidin’ Away” while the words pass through my mind. The fourth verse...
Healthcare Musings For June 3, 2022

Healthcare Musings For June 3, 2022

June 3, 2022 Dear Interested Readers,   More Problems Than Power In The Search For Solutions In A Divided Land   In 2007, a few months before I became the CEO of Atrius Health and Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Dr. Steven Schroeder’s “Shattuck Lecture”...
Healthcare Musings For May 13, 2022

Healthcare Musings For May 13, 2022

May 13, 2022 Dear Interested Readers,   How Hope Can Endure In Difficult Times   If you were a young African American in the early sixties, you were in the midst of a noble struggle meant to free you from the difficulties and disrespect that your parents and...