Healthcare Musings For July 10, 2020
July 10, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, It’s Seems Impossible To Look Away and See Beyond the Moment The last six months have been a blur. I can vaguely remember the impeachment hearings in January, and the faint hope that a couple of Republican...
The Lessons Just Keep Coming
The president taught me something this week. I was not surprised when I heard that his campaign speech at Mount Rushmore was a dark and divisive presentation. I was very surprised, and a bit supercilious, when I heard that his rath came down on “far left”...
Healthcare Musings For July 3, 2020
July 3, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, A Different Kind of Fourth One of my most cherished possessions is about fifty feet of 8mm film shot by my father between 1948 and 1950. I found several canisters of developed and undeveloped movie film in a...
We Can Revive the Better Instincts of Our Nature As We Face Our Current Challenges
It feels like we have had a lifetime’s measure of challenging events in the last four months, but it seems much too early to know how things will be different when the “new normal” really arrives. The descriptors of this moment are volatility,...
Healthcare Musings For June 26, 2020
June 26, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Frustrated, Frightened, But Hoping I have read hundreds of thousands of words about the COVID-19 epidemic. There are several great writers at The Atlantic who have provided excellent reports and analysis,...
If I Don’t Check the Weather It Won’t Rain On My Picnic!
What would you think if you heard someone say, “If I don’t check the weather, it won’t rain on my picnic!”? I guess the answer depends on the context. It could be a tongue in cheek joke, or it could be an expression of a very disconnected concept about how...
Healthcare Musings For June 19, 2020
June 19, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Is “Living On Tulsa Time” Appropriate For These Times? Donald Ray Williams is gone now, but he is in the Country Music Hall of Fame. Williams sang many hit songs, but one in particular, “Tulsa Time,” written...
Pandemic Fatigue and Follies
In retrospect the admonition to “Beware the Ides of March,” is not an exact fit for the explosion of COVID-19 in America, but close enough. The 15th of March has a long history of being a bad day. In ancient Rome it was both a religious holiday and the day when...
Healthcare Musings For June 12, 2020
June 12, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Hope For Transformational Change Interesting and surprising things happen in cyberspace. I send these letters to you through a platform called WordPress. I get responses from you in two ways. Some of you just...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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