Healthcare Musings For August 13, 2021

Healthcare Musings For August 13, 2021

  August 13, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   Going Deeper Into What Could Be   If you have been a regular reader of these notes for at least a year you know that from time to time I find inspiration in the writing and songs of my youngest son. When he...
Healthcare Musings For August 6, 2021

Healthcare Musings For August 6, 2021

  August 6, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   Why I Have Been Writing About Race, Inequality, and Climate Change   As I look back over the last thirteen years that I have been writing these Friday letters to you I realize that there has been quite a...
Healthcare Musings For July 30, 2021

Healthcare Musings For July 30, 2021

  July 30, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   Is “Normal” A Concept That Is Over?   This summer has been a very strange season with some very violent weather. Some days feel eerily spooky with a dangerous heavy haze from the West Coast fires hanging over...
Healthcare Musings For July 23, 2021

Healthcare Musings For July 23, 2021

  July 23, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   Can We Use The Desire To Be Anti-Racist To Improve Healthcare?   Even if you are only a casual reader of these notes you know that I am a big fan of many of the columnists who write opinion pieces in The New...
Healthcare Musings For July 16, 2021

Healthcare Musings For July 16, 2021

  July 16, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   Are Voting Rights Critical To Improving The Social Determinants Of Health?   These are tense times for me. I wish that I could just turn off the television, cancel all my newspaper and magazine subscriptions,...
Healthcare Musings For July 9,2021

Healthcare Musings For July 9,2021

  July 9, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   What We’re All Losing    After this past year and a half, almost everyone in America can name something that they have lost. What is also true is that most of us can name something that we have learned. If you...
Healthcare Musings For July 2, 2021

Healthcare Musings For July 2, 2021

  July 2, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   What’s Next? What Are The “Joes” Going to Do?    I am flabbergasted. It is my opinion that yesterday (Thursday) was a horrible day for our democracy, and ultimately for healthcare. The Supreme Court dealt the...
Healthcare Musings For June 25, 2021

Healthcare Musings For June 25, 2021

  June 25, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   What Happened to You?   Most Monday mornings since the COVID lockdown began I meet on Zoom with a few local friends to discuss a book that we have all been reading. We take on one or two chapters a week and...
Healthcare Musings For June 18, 2021

Healthcare Musings For June 18, 2021

  June 18, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   Juneteenth and a Reconfirmed ACA on One Day Speak Loudly to a Legacy of Poverty and Healthcare Disparities.    Early this week, my plan for this letter was built around a review of the history of Juneteenth...
Healthcare Musings For June 11, 2021

Healthcare Musings For June 11, 2021

June 11, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   “Every System Is Perfectly Designed To Get The Results It Gets.”   Dr. Paul Batalden was one of the thought leaders in the quality and safety movement of the last thirty-plus years who may not be as well known...