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 29, 2024

Healthcare Musings For March 29, 2024

March 29, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Reflections On Nursing   This week’s letter is shorter even than last week’s letter. I am making progress, but sitting in a comfortable position for the time required to do work is a challenge. I have appreciated the...
Healthcare Musings For March 15, 2024

Healthcare Musings For March 15, 2024

March 15, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Income From Quality   In the early years of this century after the near failure of Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare, there were very active conversations in Massachusetts about the cost, quality, and access to healthcare...
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 March 1, 2024

Healthcare Musings For March 1, 2024

March 1, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Quality Defined Us   I have gained a new perspective on how to structure what remains of the story of the development of my medical-moral sensibilities. The story up till now has been mostly delivered in chronological...
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...