Healthcare Musings For September 10, 2021

Healthcare Musings For September 10, 2021

September 10, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   9/11 and 2001 Remembered and Reflections   I was deeply moved by a casual statement made by a news commentator about how young the thirteen soldiers were who were killed by the ISIS terrorist bomber who blew...
We Can Revive the Better Instincts of Our Nature As We Face Our Current Challenges

We Can Revive the Better Instincts of Our Nature As We Face Our Current Challenges

  It feels like we have had a lifetime’s measure of challenging events in the last four months, but it seems much too early to know how things will be different when the “new normal” really arrives. The descriptors of this moment are volatility,...
Healthcare Musings For May 29, 2020

Healthcare Musings For May 29, 2020

  May 29, 2020 Dear Interested Readers,   100,000 And Counting With A Very Stable Genius Leading The Way   This has been a very difficult week for all of us. 100,000 is a very large number of people. The Rose Bowl seats 92,542. I spent a long time...
Thoughts While Embarking On An Uncertain Summer

Thoughts While Embarking On An Uncertain Summer

  I had been looking forward to a little respite over the Memorial Day weekend from the daily COVID news. Are you tired of reading about COVID-19? I am weary of writing about it, but it is like a bad dream from which I can not awaken. I am obsessed with the...
Healthcare Musings For May 8, 2020

Healthcare Musings For May 8, 2020

  May 8, 2020 Dear Interested Readers,   It’s a Time for Humility, Caution and Focus on Long Term Improvements. It is Not a Time for  Arrogance, Abandon, and the Pursuit of Short Term Gains.    It’s hard to know what everyone is thinking, and as a...
Healthcare Musings For May 1, 2020

Healthcare Musings For May 1, 2020

  May 1, 2020   Dear Interested Readers,   Too Soon For Me   Goodbye to April! We began the month with about 17 million unemployed Americans and finished the month with over 30 million, or 20% of the workforce. The sad fact is that just as we are...