Healthcare Musings For June 3, 2022

Healthcare Musings For June 3, 2022

June 3, 2022 Dear Interested Readers,   More Problems Than Power In The Search For Solutions In A Divided Land   In 2007, a few months before I became the CEO of Atrius Health and Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Dr. Steven Schroeder’s “Shattuck Lecture”...
Healthcare Musings For December 31, 2021

Healthcare Musings For December 31, 2021

December 31, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   Reflections On 2021, A Very Unusual And Unpleasant Year, And Hopes For A Better 2022.   If you are reading this letter, you have survived a tough year. Well, maybe, there are a few hours before that is certain. On...
Healthcare Musings For September 24, 2021

Healthcare Musings For September 24, 2021

  September 24, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   Thinking About the (Compromised) Future of Primary Care   I have always thought of myself as a primary care physician. When I joined the practice at Harvard Community Health Plan as their only cardiologist...
Healthcare Musings For August 13, 2021

Healthcare Musings For August 13, 2021

  August 13, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   Going Deeper Into What Could Be   If you have been a regular reader of these notes for at least a year you know that from time to time I find inspiration in the writing and songs of my youngest son. When he...
Healthcare Musings For July 23, 2021

Healthcare Musings For July 23, 2021

  July 23, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   Can We Use The Desire To Be Anti-Racist To Improve Healthcare?   Even if you are only a casual reader of these notes you know that I am a big fan of many of the columnists who write opinion pieces in The New...
A Fierce Urgency: What Are We Going To Do About Racism In Healthcare?

A Fierce Urgency: What Are We Going To Do About Racism In Healthcare?

  In August 2019, long before we were challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic The New York Times Magazine published “The 1619 Project.” We live in a time where race and the impact of our history of slavery, the era of Jim Crow, and the continuing struggle for social...