Healthcare Musings For September 4, 2020
September 4, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Our Biggest Threat Is Our Incompetence This is a week when we get a treat. Atul Gawande has published another insightful article built on a position that he has expressed before. On several occasions Gawande has...
Contemplating The The Future of Healthcare Outcomes and of Healthcare Disparities In A Second Trump Term
The conventions are over, and the election lies 63 days, nine short weeks, into the future. It did not take President Trump long to hit the campaign trial. He landed at the Manchester Airport less than twenty four hours after desecrating the South Lawn of the...
Healthcare Musings For August 28, 2020
August 28, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, From Here to the Election, Expect the Unusual and Bizarre It has been a violent and disturbing week as we have witnessed yet more dramatic displays of the effect of our continuing abuse of the environment and our...
A Revisionist Look Back, And A Dystopian Look Forward At The Republican Convention
I haven’t been looking forward to this week with much excitement. It makes me very anxious to listen to the president speak. When I see ordinary people turn a blind eye to his deficiencies, especially his cruelties, I am disoriented, and become anxious...
The Political Conventions Have Begun. The Future of Healthcare Depends On What Follows
The political conventions for 2020 began last night. I’ve been watching these events longer than I have been paying attention to the Olympics. I first paid attention to the Olympics in 1956, but do not remember seeing them on TV. I remember watching the 1952...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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