Healthcare Musings For April 29, 2022

Healthcare Musings For April 29, 2022

  April 29, 2022 Dear Interested Readers,   Is Healthcare Enlightened Now or Suffering From Postmodern Cynicism and Burnout?   About five years ago, I was delighted to get the good news from Stephen Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard, that the...
Joe Has Proposed A Super Highway To The Triple Aim

Joe Has Proposed A Super Highway To The Triple Aim

  I have a confession. For some time I have had the suspicion that the idea of the Triple Aim does not effectively call many of us or our institutions to immediate action. I hear an occasional doctor or administrator talk about the “Quadruple Aim” and that makes...
Healthcare Musings For February 5, 2021

Healthcare Musings For February 5, 2021

  February 5, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   It’s Time To Start Again    I am sure that I am not alone in my current strange mix of hope and residual fear. I am feeling much better now that Joe Biden is in the Oval office, but prior traumas are hard to...
A Revisionist Look Back, And A Dystopian Look Forward At The Republican Convention

A Revisionist Look Back, And A Dystopian Look Forward At The Republican Convention

  I haven’t been looking forward to this week with much excitement. It makes me very anxious to listen to the president speak. When I see ordinary people turn a blind eye to his deficiencies, especially his cruelties, I am disoriented, and become anxious...
Words of Wisdom From Tom and Dennis

Words of Wisdom From Tom and Dennis

  Over the past six weeks VUCA, the acronym for volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous, has passed through my mind on countless occasions as I tried to think about how unexpectedly, rapidly, definitely, and devastatingly the world had changed. Almost as...
Healthcare Musings For 7 February 2020

Healthcare Musings For 7 February 2020

  7 February 2020 Dear Interested Readers,   What’s Next?   The Valley News, my local newspaper, serves me in two ways, if it is delivered. Delivery has been erratic over the last six months since the delivery man, “Sonnie,” got mad at someone in...