Healthcare Musings For February 9, 2024

Healthcare Musings For February 9, 2024

by | Feb 9, 2024 | A personal history, Brigham and Women's, chronic disease management, Dr. H. Richard Nesson, Featured Post, Implicit Bias, Inequality in Healthcare, Mass General Brigham, Medical-Moral Sensibilities, Primary Care, Social Determinants of Health

February 9, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Reflections on Our History of Bias in Medicine and Experience Managing Chronic Diseases   Hospital I want to bring your attention to two recent articles in The New England Journal of Medicine.    The first...
Healthcare Musings For September 15, 2023

Healthcare Musings For September 15, 2023

by | Sep 15, 2023 | A personal history, A story from my life, Dr. Bernard Lown, Dr. David Littman, Dr. Harold Levine, Dr. Marshall Wolfe, Dr. Peter Cohn, Dr. Richard Gorlin, Featured Post, Fellowship training, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Medical School, medical education, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Primary Care, Professional Satisfaction, Professionalism

September 15, 2023 Dear Interested Readers,   My Story Continues   My medical training occurred in the shadow of the Vietnam Era draft. Early on, college students were protected as long as they were enrolled. The result was that there was social inequity....
Healthcare Musings For August 11, 2023

Healthcare Musings For August 11, 2023

by | Aug 11, 2023 | A story from my life, COVID, Dr. Joel Alpert, Dr. John Enders, Family Practice, Featured Post, Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy, Polio and The Salk Vaccine, Post Polio Syndrome, Primary Care, Texas Medical Center, The Cutter Incident

August 11, 2023 Dear Interested Readers,   Continuing Memories From Medical School      Medical school was many things. It was a huge vocabulary lesson. It was an introduction to professional life. It was formative and transformative. When I look back...
Healthcare Musings For March 10, 2023

Healthcare Musings For March 10, 2023

by | Mar 10, 2023 | A story from my life, Adaptive Change, Atrium Health, Consolidation in healthcare, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Health in America, Healthcare in Rural America, improving the delivery of care, Medical Professionalism, Primary Care, the difficulties of change, Wisconsin Health Atlas

March 10, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Musing About How Things Have Changed and Hopefully Will Continue To Change   My wife and I have just returned from a trip to my mother’s hometown in North Carolina where I spent many happy summer days as a child. Our trip...
Healthcare Musings For March 5, 2021

Healthcare Musings For March 5, 2021

by | Mar 5, 2021 | ACO, capitation, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Vanguard Medical, Healthcare as a Right, Inequality in Healthcare, Lean, medical home, Primary Care, Primary Care Challenges, Social Determinants of Health, team based care, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim, Universal Access, Value Based Reimbursement

  March 5, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   More Thoughts About The Importance of Primary Care   Now that Donald Trump is off Twitter and mostly out of sight except for occasional appearances at places like CPAC, I find that I have more time to think...