Understanding How the Amazing Success of the 9.9 Percent is a Risk to Better Healthcare for Everyone
I saw aristocracy up close at Harvard Medical School. I quickly realized that some of my classmates were from families that were either power brokers in New York or Washington, or were the elite of American medicine. I discerned that I had been slotted into the class...
A Request That Got Me Thinking About How We Practice
Recently my 97 year old father was readmitted to his local hospital in North Carolina with another episode of CHF and aspiration pneumonia. He was discharged to the rehab facility at his life care community on a Monday. My sister from Birmingham drove over and spent...
If Innovation Is the Answer, Do You Know What You Need To Know?
“Innovation” is frequently offered as the “way out of the woods” for American healthcare. And why not? As Americans we are reminded of the power of innovation to reshape our world many times a day as we tap on our cell phones to find our way through traffic to a place...
Trump’s Genius and Knowing What Divides Our Righteous Minds in Politics and Healthcare
Someday the presidency of Donald Trump will be a subject for historians. Whatever historians say, I am sure that they will begin the story long before we thought of Trump’s bid for the presidency as anything more than a joke. The story will not begin with a review of...
Applying Dr. King’s Dream to Healthcare in 2018
Not much has changed in the experience of many since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr In the days before the fiftieth anniversary...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
A .pdf reader is required to read this document. You can obtain the latest version of Adobe Reader at: Get Adobe Reader