Hawaii’s Primary Care Crisis
Whenever I travel, I like to look around to assess what it might be like to give care or receive care in the places that I visit. As I write this post, I am flying home from eleven days in Hawaii, where unlike most of the tourists, I was checking out where...
Thinking About the Experiences of Poverty
If you are a close reader of these notes, you’ve probably figured out that my career was as a physician first and then secondarily as a healthcare administrator who was fascinated by the many facets of healthcare management and policy. Put into the...
Healthcare Musings For 7 December 2018
7 December 2018 Dear Interested Readers, A Potpourri of Feelings and Observations Some weeks it is beyond my ability to finally decide on one subject for these notes. It occurs to me that most weeks this letter to you does not live up to its billing as “musings;”...
Michelle Obama’s and Robert Ebert’s Concerns About The Health of the Poor
Much has been written in recent years about medicine and the physician…A cursory survey of what has been written…permits the conclusion that medical science comes off rather well and the doctor’s image not so well. One gains the impression that doctors as...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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