Building The New Normal With Lean

Building The New Normal With Lean

by | May 12, 2020 | A Brief History of the Last One Hundred Years Of Healthcare, Covid-19, Don Berwick, Featured Post, Health in America, Healthcare Quality, Healthcare Transformation, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality in Healthcare, Lean, Pandemic Management, Social Determinants of Health, The World After COVID-19

  As we move into an attempt to recover from the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us have begun to think about how the delivery of healthcare will be changed by what we have experienced. Some have suggested that the pandemic has revealed serious flaws...
Hope, Peace, Joy, Love: What the Holidays Are All About

Hope, Peace, Joy, Love: What the Holidays Are All About

by | Dec 24, 2019 | Advent and Christmas, Conservative Values, Empathy, Featured Post, Hanukkah, Health in America, Liberal Values, Making America Great Again, Medicare For All, Polarization in America, Progressive Values, The Triple Aim

  This year Christmas falls in the middle of Hanukkah. I think the overlap creates an opportunity to celebrate the deeper meaning that is shared between these overlapping religious traditions. Both holidays are celebrated near the winter solstice, a time...
Healthcare Musings For 13 December 2019

Healthcare Musings For 13 December 2019

by | Dec 13, 2019 | Democratic control of the House, Featured Post, Health in America, Impeachment Hearings, Polarization in America, Population Health, Poverty and healthcare, selling plasma as income for the poor, Social Determinants of Health, The 2020 elections

  13 December 2019 Dear Interested Readers,   How Good Are Things? It Depends On Who You Are And Where You Live.   It’s hard to put the drama in Washington out of mind. If you have had the time, you may, like me, have spent many hours watching the House...
What Does The Plight of the Homeless Say About the Rest of Us?

What Does The Plight of the Homeless Say About the Rest of Us?

by | May 7, 2019 | Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Health in America, Opioid Epidemic, Population Health, Social Determinants of Health, The Homeless

I took the picture that heads up this post on a walk this week in Albuquerque. I was there to visit my son and his wife. They moved to Albuquerque in 2007. For my daughter-in-law it was a return to her hometown. Both of her parents had been teachers in the Albuquerque...
Healthcare Musing For 1 March 2019

Healthcare Musing For 1 March 2019

by | Mar 1, 2019 | Bernie Sanders, Democratic control of the House, Economic inequality, Empathy, Era 3: the moral era, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Health in America, Medical Professionalism, Michael Cohen's Testimony, My mother's lessons, Presidential Politics

1 March 2019   Dear Interested Readers   Learning A New Way Of Being In The World Together   This week has been chock-full of important events that fall along the path of our common journey in troubled times. I am not referring to the debate over the...