Healthcare Musings For May 6, 2022

Healthcare Musings For May 6, 2022

May 6, 2022 Dear interested Readers,   Surprised and Disappointed Again in Strange Times   It’s been another tough week in Ukraine, especially in Mariupol, and not so pleasant here. It has been a week with at least one huge surprise. I can remember halcyon...
Healthcare Musings For July 24, 2020

Healthcare Musings For July 24, 2020

  July 24, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, We Are Not As “Exceptional” As We Thought   As a child, I developed a love of American history. My family traveled more extensively east of the Mississippi than to the west, but the east was the home of colonial...
Healthcare Musings For July 3, 2020

Healthcare Musings For July 3, 2020

  July 3, 2020 Dear Interested Readers,   A Different Kind of Fourth   One of my most cherished possessions is about fifty feet of 8mm film shot by my father between 1948 and 1950. I found several canisters of developed and undeveloped movie film in a...
Healthcare Musings For April 3, 2020

Healthcare Musings For April 3, 2020

  April 3, 2020 Dear Interested Readers,   The Acute Presentation Of A Chronic Problem   In less than a month after I finished my every other night on call schedule as an intern at the old Peter Bent  Brigham Hospital and began to enjoy the luxury of...
Healthcare Musings For 8 November 2019

Healthcare Musings For 8 November 2019

  8 November 2019 Dear Interested Readers,   Why Medicare for All Is The Best Choice, But An Unlikely Outcome No Matter Who Wins   I know that I am writing to sophisticated readers. Much of what follows may be boringly redundant or a statement of the...
The Challenge Is Still To Deliver on “These Truths”

The Challenge Is Still To Deliver on “These Truths”

  I was quite gratified that in his recent sixteen hour panorama of Country Music, Ken Burns spent a disproportionate amount of time in episode six on Kris Kristofferson. Kristofferson has always been a favorite of mine. He was an exceptional athlete at Pomona...