Are We On the Threshold of a Great Awakening?

Are We On the Threshold of a Great Awakening?

  The header for this post should look familiar since last Friday’s post featured a very similar picture. The picture on last Friday had been taken on the previous Tuesday evening when about 200 people gathered on the New London Town Green to demonstrate their...
Healthcare Musings For June 5, 2020

Healthcare Musings For June 5, 2020

  June 5, 2020 Dear Interested Readers,   It’s Never Been This Late Before   Many times during my practice life I would try to have a conversation with a patient about some change in lifestyle or a choice that they might make to avoid some future...
America’s Pre Existing Condition

America’s Pre Existing Condition

  There is a certain wisdom in Yogi Berra’s observation that, “It is deja vu all over again.” When I was practicing I would frequently have that thought as I was trying to manage a patient with a chronic disease. Whether the problem was CHF, poorly controlled...
Healthcare Musings For May 29, 2020

Healthcare Musings For May 29, 2020

  May 29, 2020 Dear Interested Readers,   100,000 And Counting With A Very Stable Genius Leading The Way   This has been a very difficult week for all of us. 100,000 is a very large number of people. The Rose Bowl seats 92,542. I spent a long time...
Healthcare Musings For 17 January 2020

Healthcare Musings For 17 January 2020

  17 January 2020 Dear Interested Readers,   The Power and Importance To Healthcare Of Dr. King’s “Letter From A Birmingham Jail”   Why are black people sicker, and why do they die earlier, than other racial groups? Many factors likely...
Healthcare Musings For 16 August 2019

Healthcare Musings For 16 August 2019

16 August 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Race and Healthcare   The New York Times Magazine has launched a program this month that it is calling “The 1619 Project.” This year is the 400th anniversary of slavery in America. The piece that you will find if you follow...