Understanding How the Amazing Success of the 9.9 Percent is a Risk to Better Healthcare for Everyone

Understanding How the Amazing Success of the 9.9 Percent is a Risk to Better Healthcare for Everyone

I saw aristocracy up close at Harvard Medical School. I quickly realized that some of my classmates were from families that were either power brokers in New York or Washington, or were the elite of American medicine. I discerned that I had been slotted into the class...
We Must Be Inept Because We Do Spend Enough To Do a Better Job

We Must Be Inept Because We Do Spend Enough To Do a Better Job

When my own wellspring of inspiration and self proclaimed insight seems to be temporarily running dry, I compensate by passing on to readers what I am learning from others. There has been a lot to learn from others and to pass on recently. I was particularly intrigued...
Trump’s Genius and Knowing What Divides Our Righteous Minds in Politics and Healthcare

Trump’s Genius and Knowing What Divides Our Righteous Minds in Politics and Healthcare

Someday the presidency of Donald Trump will be a subject for historians. Whatever historians say, I am sure that they will begin the story long before we thought of Trump’s bid for the presidency as anything more than a joke.  The story will not begin with a review of...
The Gifts That The President Gives Us and The Challenge That He Represents to the Triple Aim

The Gifts That The President Gives Us and The Challenge That He Represents to the Triple Aim

The foundational fairy tale that Michael Wolff tells us in his bestseller, Fire and Fury: Inside The Trump White House, is that the president and none of his campaign staff, except Steve Bannon, ever thought he would win and did not prepare for the possibility of...

Beyond Silver Bullets: Embracing Era 3 of Healthcare

Zeev Neuwirth, Senior Medical Director of Population Health at Carolinas Healthcare System Medical Group, and an old friend and former colleague, launched a weekly podcast last August entitled, Creating a New Healthcare. I love the recurrent introduction that  Zeev...
Racism, Poverty, Injustice, Inequality, and Healthcare Disparities: Different Sides of the Same Problem

Racism, Poverty, Injustice, Inequality, and Healthcare Disparities: Different Sides of the Same Problem

A small group of people in my community has been meeting recently to examine how we may be more effective in our charitable activities for our community. Our definition of community is not confined to the limits of New London, but is defined more as a region that...