Healthcare Musings For 18 January 2019
18 January 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Don Berwick On Our Responsibility to Address the Social Determinants of Health If you have not read the last few postings, let me suggest that you quickly catch up by skimming last Friday’s note. In that...
Remembering Dr. King’s Views on Poverty
Today would have been Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s ninetieth birthday. In my opinion the three most positive moral figures of the twentieth century were Dr. King, Mother Teresa, and Gandhi. Over the last several years I have been increasingly aware of the impact...
Healthcare Musings for 11 January 2011
11 January 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Thesis, Antithesis, and Synthesis: Developing a Poverty Dialog I began my writing almost eleven years ago as a device that I hoped might promote a dialog within our practice. I felt that we had challenges ahead,...
Poverty and The Care of The Patient
I was apprehensive when I sent out last Friday’s “Healthcare Musings.”  The main section of the letter was entitled “We Must Address Poverty and the Social Determinants of Health.” I was concerned that some readers might not consider discussing poverty as an...
What’s Ahead For Healthcare in 2019: Let’s Focus On The Triple Aim
I hope that you enjoyed the fireworks last night. Someone on our lake put on a big show. This will not be a typical New Year’s Day. The big college football games leading up to the national championship were played on Saturday night and the NFL playoffs will not begin...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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