Healthcare Musings For October 10, 2025

Healthcare Musings For October 10, 2025

10 October 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   The Shutdown Is An Exercise in the Political Determinants of Health   In this week’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, a poignant essay can be found at the end of the “Perspectives” section. It was...
Healthcare Musing For March 14, 2025

Healthcare Musing For March 14, 2025

March 14, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   Radical Versus Rational Change   Donald Trump roared into office claiming that he had a mandate for radical changes in government structure and policy that his supporters believed would “make America great again.” He...
Healthcare Musings For February 14, 2025

Healthcare Musings For February 14, 2025

February 14, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   Primary Care Has Changed Since 1975   For several weeks, I have felt a need to write about primary care. When I try to write to express my concerns about primary care, I am derailed by yet another outrageous event...
Healthcare Musings For June 14, 2024

Healthcare Musings For June 14, 2024

June 14, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Reflections On This Moment In Healthcare   When I began to write these Friday letters sixteen years ago in mid-February 2008,  it was much easier than my task now. All I needed to do then to discover plenty to write...
Healthcare Musings For March 1, 2024

Healthcare Musings For March 1, 2024

March 1, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Quality Defined Us   I have gained a new perspective on how to structure what remains of the story of the development of my medical-moral sensibilities. The story up till now has been mostly delivered in chronological...
Healthcare Musings For February 23, 2024

Healthcare Musings For February 23, 2024

February 23, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Old Connections For Current Progress   When I look back on the almost six years that I was leading Harvard Vanguard and Atrius Health it is probably impossible for me to give each activity and each contributor...