Healthcare Musings For April 19, 2024

Healthcare Musings For April 19, 2024

April 19, 2024 Dear interested Readers,   What Can We Do?   I should give you a warning that what follows is just personal opinion and speculation based on many years of observation and substantial frustration. As I think back over what I have observed in...
Healthcare Musings For April 12, 2024

Healthcare Musings For April 12, 2024

April 12, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   I Don’t Understand Why Healthcare Isn’t A Top Political Issue   My adventures in healthcare continued this week with my much-anticipated first post-op appointment with my surgeon at Dartmouth which was three weeks...
Healthcare Musings For April 5, 2024

Healthcare Musings For April 5, 2024

April 5, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   What Dr. King’s Experience Might Suggest About Improving Healthcare   April 4, 1968, seems a lifetime ago, and yet I remember it more clearly than most days of the last year. If you had asked me where Dr. King was, I...
Healthcare Musings For March 8, 2024

Healthcare Musings For March 8, 2024

March 8, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   A Better Understanding of Moral Injury   My long journey this year exploring the origins of my medical-moral sensibilities was inspired by an article that first appeared in the Sunday New York Times Magazine last June...
Healthcare Musings For February 23, 2024

Healthcare Musings For February 23, 2024

February 23, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Old Connections For Current Progress   When I look back on the almost six years that I was leading Harvard Vanguard and Atrius Health it is probably impossible for me to give each activity and each contributor...
Healthcare Musings For February 16, 2024

Healthcare Musings For February 16, 2024

February 16, 2024 Dear Interested Readers   Medical Ethics, Access, and Personal Experience   There are huge variations in care in America’s healthcare system. One has a different experience in quality, cost, and access, depending on your location and your...