Healthcare Musings For November 12, 2021

Healthcare Musings For November 12, 2021

  November 12, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Veterans Day and Our Social Programs   Last week I introduced you to the podcast, Going for Broke, which is hosted by former NPR broadcaster Ray Suarez and produced by a collaboration between The Nation and the...
Healthcare Musings For November 5, 2021

Healthcare Musings For November 5, 2021

  November 5, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Have You Ever Been Broke?   The newspapers are pointing out what a difference a year makes. According to the speculations in an article by Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns published in the New York Times on...
Healthcare Musings For October 8, 2021

Healthcare Musings For October 8, 2021

October 8, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   Reflections on Failed Good Intentions And Inequality   My fiftieth-anniversary medical school reunion was this past June. COVID turned it into an online event. I understood the necessity, but it was a disappointment...
Healthcare Musings For October 1, 2021

Healthcare Musings For October 1, 2021

October 1, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   Why Do We Make Choices That Don’t Promote Our Wellbeing?   The news is full of the manifestations of our national uncertainties and deep divisions. At this moment Congress is engaged in a great debate about the...
Healthcare Musings For August 13, 2021

Healthcare Musings For August 13, 2021

  August 13, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   Going Deeper Into What Could Be   If you have been a regular reader of these notes for at least a year you know that from time to time I find inspiration in the writing and songs of my youngest son. When he...
Healthcare Musings For August 6, 2021

Healthcare Musings For August 6, 2021

  August 6, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   Why I Have Been Writing About Race, Inequality, and Climate Change   As I look back over the last thirteen years that I have been writing these Friday letters to you I realize that there has been quite a...