Healthcare Musings For February 9, 2024

Healthcare Musings For February 9, 2024

February 9, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Reflections on Our History of Bias in Medicine and Experience Managing Chronic Diseases   Hospital I want to bring your attention to two recent articles in The New England Journal of Medicine.    The first...
Healthcare Musings For February 2, 2024

Healthcare Musings For February 2, 2024

February 2, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Is Healthcare Trapped In Its Own Groundhog Day Cycle?   My local newspaper has become a fertile field of thought and ideas for me. Last Monday, The Valley News, my local paper, had a front-page article that...
Healthcare Musings For January 19, 2024

Healthcare Musings For January 19, 2024

January 19, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   An Interesting Article In My Local Newspaper   Small-town newspapers are a dying public resource. A recent report from the PBS News Hour begins:   Over the past few decades, more than 2,000 newspapers across...
Healthcare Musings For January 12, 2024

Healthcare Musings For January 12, 2024

January 12, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Uncommon Greatness–Remembered   Monday, January 15, is the birthday of Dr. King. This is a rare year because the national holiday that honors his contributions to all of humankind falls on his birth date in...
Healthcare Musings For January 5, 2024

Healthcare Musings For January 5, 2024

January 5, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   A Surprising Event At The Beginning of a Pivotal Year   I have observed presidential campaigns for a long time. I well remember watching the 1952 presidential nominating conventions on our recently acquired black...
Healthcare Musings For December 29,2023

Healthcare Musings For December 29,2023

December 29, 2023 Dear Interested Readers,   It’s Been A Tough Year    I am not sorry that we have only two more days in 2023. I always see a little hope in new beginnings. 2024 has the potential to be an outstanding year, but there is an almost equal...