Healthcare Musings For 6 December 2019

Healthcare Musings For 6 December 2019

  6 December 2019 Dear Interested Readers,   Grass Root Efforts To Address The Social Determinants of Health: Introduction To Partners For Community Wellness   David Brooks’ recent best seller, The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life was an...
Hawaii’s Primary Care Crisis

Hawaii’s Primary Care Crisis

  Whenever I travel, I like to look around to assess what it might be like to give care or receive care in the places that I visit. As I write this post, I am flying home from eleven days in Hawaii, where unlike most of the tourists, I was checking out where...
Healthcare Musings For 11 October 2019

Healthcare Musings For 11 October 2019

11 October 2019 Dear Interested Readers,   Where Would You Start?   When I listen to politicians talk, at least the ones running for president, the health care problems they are interested in solving are mostly limited to how we achieve universal access and...
Cosgrove and Shore on Expanding Boundaries and Leading Change 

Cosgrove and Shore on Expanding Boundaries and Leading Change 

  Last Friday’s Healthcare Musings began: At four o’clock on Tuesday afternoon I was sitting at a table in the ballroom of the Boston Seaport Hotel at the 6th ATLAS (Annual Thought Leadership Symposium). This year’s conference title was “Expanding Boundaries....
Healthcare Musings For 13 September 2019

Healthcare Musings For 13 September 2019

13 September 2019 Dear Interested Readers,   Looking For Answers While Hoping A Leader Might Emerge From A Raucous Conversation.   I made the mistake of waiting until I had witnessed the third Democratic debate last night before writing this letter to you. I...
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...