Healthcare Musings For November 5, 2021

Healthcare Musings For November 5, 2021

  November 5, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Have You Ever Been Broke?   The newspapers are pointing out what a difference a year makes. According to the speculations in an article by Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns published in the New York Times on...
Healthcare Musings For October 8, 2021

Healthcare Musings For October 8, 2021

October 8, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   Reflections on Failed Good Intentions And Inequality   My fiftieth-anniversary medical school reunion was this past June. COVID turned it into an online event. I understood the necessity, but it was a disappointment...
Healthcare Musings For August 27, 2021

Healthcare Musings For August 27, 2021

  August 27, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   Structural Racism In Medicine   On Monday I found the August 26 edition of The New England Journal in my mail. As usual, I read the table of contents while standing in the post office in front of my mailbox....
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 August 6, 2021

Healthcare Musings For August 6, 2021

  August 6, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   Why I Have Been Writing About Race, Inequality, and Climate Change   As I look back over the last thirteen years that I have been writing these Friday letters to you I realize that there has been quite a...
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...