Healthcare Musings For February 9, 2024

Healthcare Musings For February 9, 2024

February 9, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Reflections on Our History of Bias in Medicine and Experience Managing Chronic Diseases   Hospital I want to bring your attention to two recent articles in The New England Journal of Medicine.    The first...
Healthcare Musings For September 1, 2023

Healthcare Musings For September 1, 2023

September 1, 2023 Dear Interested Readers,   After 60 Years, Dr. King’s Dream Has Not Come True   If you read these notes regularly, you probably realize that I consider Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. one of our greatest American heroes. There were many...
Healthcare Musings For July 28, 2023

Healthcare Musings For July 28, 2023

July 28, 2023  Dear Interested Readers,   The Beginning of My Journey    Last week’s letter precipitated some interesting responses. Several people said they enjoyed reading about my personal experiences. One individual went so far as to say that he liked...
Healthcare Musings For July 7, 2023

Healthcare Musings For July 7, 2023

July 7, 2023 Dear Interested Readers,   How Did We Develop Our Workforce Shortages?     Last week the Supreme Court finished its session by announcing several controversial decisions. None of them had a direct impact on healthcare, but at least two of...
Healthcare Musings For March 24, 2023

Healthcare Musings For March 24, 2023

March 24, 2023 Dear Interested Readers,   “Woke” Healthcare: Implicit Racism, DEI, ESG, Biases, Intersectionality, and Duality in Healthcare   I don’t know if you noticed it or not, but some politicians who seek to gain political advantage on the right tried...
Healthcare Musings For July 15, 2022

Healthcare Musings For July 15, 2022

July 15, 2022 Dear Interested Readers,   Thoughts on Dualism, The “War of Attrition” in Ukraine, Inequality In Value-Based Reimbursement, and Inherent Biases in Medicine.    From time to time when I am thinking about all the human misery in the world that is...