Healthcare Musings For April 21, 2023
April 21, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, My First Encounter With Chat GPT: I Welcome the Use of AI in Medicine. When I joined Harvard Community Health Plan in 1975 I was well aware of the fact that I was joining an active experiment that was...
Healthcare Musings For April 14, 2023
April 14, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Examining The Political Determinants of Health Last fall, an Interested Reader who lives in Florida sent me an article by Dr. Eric Reinhardt entitled “Medicine for the People: As more and more doctors awaken to the...
Healthcare Musings For April 7, 2023
April 7, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Can You Believe That Both Trump and the ACA are in Court? This week’s news had some variation from what I expected. First, many of the talking heads of television journalists and the pundits that I read in the New...
Healthcare Musings For March 31, 2023
March 31, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, There Are Big Problems In the Pipeline For New Doctors It’s been a long time since “Match Day 1971,” and I don’t remember the scene as well as I remember the emotions. I was delighted to learn that I had...
Healthcare Musings For March 24, 2023
March 24, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, “Woke” Healthcare: Implicit Racism, DEI, ESG, Biases, Intersectionality, and Duality in Healthcare I don’t know if you noticed it or not, but some politicians who seek to gain political advantage on the right tried...
Healthcare Musings For March 17, 2023
March 17, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Desmond Implies that Progressives and Conservatives Share Some Responsibility for Poverty: What Needs to Change to Improve the Social Determinants of Health? Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! Before you drink...
Healthcare Musings For March 10, 2023
March 10, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Musing About How Things Have Changed and Hopefully Will Continue To Change My wife and I have just returned from a trip to my mother’s hometown in North Carolina where I spent many happy summer days as a child. Our trip...
Healthcare Musings For March 3, 2023
March 3, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Three Steps Backwards; Where you live makes difference! Most of us realize that when Congress failed to extend the Child Tax Credit at the end of 2021 millions of children that had been briefly lifted out of poverty...
Healthcare Musings For February 24, 2023
February 24, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, A Potpourri Of Anniversaries and Observations I apologize for making a self-congratulatory statement, but anniversaries are meaningful. This is the fifteenth anniversary of these Friday letters. There has been...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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