Healthcare Musings For July 30, 2021

Healthcare Musings For July 30, 2021

  July 30, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   Is “Normal” A Concept That Is Over?   This summer has been a very strange season with some very violent weather. Some days feel eerily spooky with a dangerous heavy haze from the West Coast fires hanging over...
Healthcare Musings For May 21, 2021

Healthcare Musings For May 21, 2021

  May 21, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   Getting Reoriented   I was surprised and delighted last Friday when Amazon delivered Elizabeth Warren’s new book, Persist, two days before its official publication date. I was eager to read what she had to say...
Tapping Into the Wisdom and Spirit of Elizabeth Warren

Tapping Into the Wisdom and Spirit of Elizabeth Warren

  Before I retired, especially after Atrius became involved with CMMI’s Pioneer ACO project, I made frequent trips to Washington. The Washington shuttle from Boston was always packed with people who looked like they were involved with very important business. It...
Healthcare Musings For April 9, 2021

Healthcare Musings For April 9, 2021

  April 9, 22021 Dear Interested Readers,   Preparing For Transformation   I have been feeling disoriented since the Biden/ Harris inauguration. For four years I had felt vulnerable to the mismanagement and outright inhumanity of a narcissistic wannabe...
Healthcare Musings For March 19, 2021

Healthcare Musings For March 19, 2021

  March 19, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   To Discuss The Social Determinants of Health Is To Discuss Poverty   The Kaiser Family Foundation published a paper this week that detailed the impact on the social determinants of health of the 1.9 COVID...
Healthcare Musings For March 12, 2021

Healthcare Musings For March 12, 2021

  March 12, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   Happy For A Little Relief While Still Looking For An End Of Misery After One Strange Year    Most of us remember in vivid detail where we were on 9/11/2001 when we first heard of the planes crashing into the...