Hope, Peace, Joy, Love: What the Holidays Are All About

Hope, Peace, Joy, Love: What the Holidays Are All About

by | Dec 24, 2019 | Advent and Christmas, Conservative Values, Empathy, Featured Post, Hanukkah, Health in America, Liberal Values, Making America Great Again, Medicare For All, Polarization in America, Progressive Values, The Triple Aim

  This year Christmas falls in the middle of Hanukkah. I think the overlap creates an opportunity to celebrate the deeper meaning that is shared between these overlapping religious traditions. Both holidays are celebrated near the winter solstice, a time...
Healthcare Musings For 20 December 2019

Healthcare Musings For 20 December 2019

by | Dec 20, 2019 | ACA, Activism in Healthcare, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare as a Right, Impeachment of Donald Trump, Polarization in America, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim

  20 December 2019  Dear Interested Readers,   Thoughts At The Winter Solstice   The Winter Solstice this year occurs tomorrow, December 21, at 11:20 PM while I am waiting for the opening skit of Saturday NIght Live. It will be the shortest day of the...
Healthcare Musings For 29 November 2019

Healthcare Musings For 29 November 2019

by | Nov 29, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, Adaptive Change, Elizabeth Warren's Medicare for All Plan, Featured Post, healthcare for the rural and urban poor, Healthcare Quality, Medicare For All, Medicare For All Who Want It, Single payer, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim

  29 November 2019 Dear Interested Readers,   Have You Heard Enough In The Democratic Debates About Healthcare?    It’s been a little more than a week since most of the Democratic contenders for the nomination for president gathered in Atlanta for their...
Chronic Disease Management and the Challenges of Impending Workforce Shortages

Chronic Disease Management and the Challenges of Impending Workforce Shortages

by | Nov 19, 2019 | CVS Health Hubs, Future of Heathcare, Improving Ambulatory Practice, Innovation in Healthcare, Shared Medical Appointments, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim

  The header for today’s post is a picture of a couple, both in their nineties, who are patiently waiting for a doctor’s appointment. I know a lot about this couple. They are my parents. They were in the vanguard of a growing movement, seniors living into their...
Healthcare Musings For 15 November 2019

Healthcare Musings For 15 November 2019

by | Nov 15, 2019 | a personal testimony, Dean Robert Ebert, Dr Joel Alpert, Dr. Edward Masters, Dr. Hermann Blumgart, Dr. Marshall Wolf, Featured Post, Francis Peabody and "The Care of the Patient", Population Health, Primary Care Challenges, Professionalism, The Triple Aim

15 November 2019 Dear Interested Readers,   More Thoughts on Professionalism and Primary Care   I enjoyed writing last Tuesday about healthcare in Hawaii and the Hawaiian expression of our nationwide problems in primary care staffing. When I write my...
Hawaii’s Primary Care Crisis

Hawaii’s Primary Care Crisis

by | Nov 12, 2019 | Hawaii's Doctor Shortage, healthcare for the rural and urban poor, Primary Care Challenges, Social Determinants of Health, The Challenges to Be Met If We to Have Universal Coverage, The Triple Aim, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare

  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...