Healthcare Musings For April 5, 2024

Healthcare Musings For April 5, 2024

April 5, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   What Dr. King’s Experience Might Suggest About Improving Healthcare   April 4, 1968, seems a lifetime ago, and yet I remember it more clearly than most days of the last year. If you had asked me where Dr. King was, I...
Healthcare Musings For September 1, 2023

Healthcare Musings For September 1, 2023

September 1, 2023 Dear Interested Readers,   After 60 Years, Dr. King’s Dream Has Not Come True   If you read these notes regularly, you probably realize that I consider Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. one of our greatest American heroes. There were many...
Healthcare Musings For June 2, 2023

Healthcare Musings For June 2, 2023

June 2, 2023 Dear Interested Readers,   Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité   “Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité” is the motto of France. It speaks to the high ideals of a country that is trying to improve the social determinants of health for everyone. The motto was...
Healthcare Musings For May 5, 2023

Healthcare Musings For May 5, 2023

May 5, 2023   Dear Interested Readers,   Medicine and the Struggle For the Soul of America   One of the members of my Monday morning book group is a woman who is a retired minister and hospital chaplain whose oldest daughter is a physician’s assistant...
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 April 14, 2023

Healthcare Musings For April 14, 2023

April 14, 2023 Dear Interested Readers,   Examining The Political Determinants of Health   Last fall, an Interested Reader who lives in Florida sent me an article by Dr. Eric Reinhardt entitled “Medicine for the People: As more and more doctors awaken to the...