Healthcare Musings For September 4, 2020
September 4, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Our Biggest Threat Is Our Incompetence This is a week when we get a treat. Atul Gawande has published another insightful article built on a position that he has expressed before. On several occasions Gawande has...
Can A For Profit Practice Improve the Social Determinants Of Health With Medicaid Dollars ?
One of my favorite experiences is getting an email from an old friend and colleague. Better yet is getting an email from an old colleague who is still an “interested reader.” The “trifecta” of experiences associated with an email from an old friend and...
Healthcare Musings For 6 September 2019
6 September 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Did You Like It? Do You Want To Try It? I was thrilled with Joe Knowles’ contribution to Tuesday’s post, “Guns In Homes: Time for a Safe Home Credit.” I hope that you have read it. If not, please do. Just click...
The Persistent Healthcare Problems of Rural America
In healthcare there is disappointing truth in the old saw, “The more things change, the more they remain the same.” It is paradoxically true that things are changing all the time. I observe that it is often true that in reference to a particular subject or problem...
Michelle Obama’s and Robert Ebert’s Concerns About The Health of the Poor
Much has been written in recent years about medicine and the physician…A cursory survey of what has been written…permits the conclusion that medical science comes off rather well and the doctor’s image not so well. One gains the impression that doctors as...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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