Healthcare Musings For September 25, 2020

Healthcare Musings For September 25, 2020

  September 25, 2020 Dear Interested Readers,   Milestones, Grief, Continuing Misery, and Rage   I wish that Justice Ginsburg’s death had not coincided with the passing of the milestone of 200,000 deaths in this country from COVID-19 because it has been...
Healthcare Musings For August 28, 2020

Healthcare Musings For August 28, 2020

  August 28, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, From Here to the Election, Expect the Unusual and Bizarre   It has been a violent and disturbing week as we have witnessed yet more dramatic displays of the effect of our continuing abuse of the environment and our...
A Week Of Loss, A Time For Remembrance And Dedication

A Week Of Loss, A Time For Remembrance And Dedication

  In the week immediately following their deaths on the same day, it would be hard to write a post in the age of Black Lives Matter and our increasing awareness of the role of white privilege and economic inequality in the persistence of healthcare disparities...
Healthcare Musings For July 17, 2020

Healthcare Musings For July 17, 2020

  July 17, 2020 Dear Interested Readers,   Finding Hope In Strange Times   Can things get more bizarre in our deeply troubled and widely divided nation? Facing a pandemic that remains poorly understood and totally unpredictable, but might have stolen...
The Lessons Just Keep Coming

The Lessons Just Keep Coming

  The president taught me something this week. I was not surprised when I heard that his campaign speech at Mount Rushmore was a dark and divisive presentation. I was very surprised, and a bit supercilious, when I heard that his rath came down on “far left”...
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...