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...
Are We On the Threshold of a Great Awakening?
The header for this post should look familiar since last Friday’s post featured a very similar picture. The picture on last Friday had been taken on the previous Tuesday evening when about 200 people gathered on the New London Town Green to demonstrate their...
Healthcare Musings For June 5, 2020
June 5, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, It’s Never Been This Late Before Many times during my practice life I would try to have a conversation with a patient about some change in lifestyle or a choice that they might make to avoid some future...
America’s Pre Existing Condition
There is a certain wisdom in Yogi Berra’s observation that, “It is deja vu all over again.” When I was practicing I would frequently have that thought as I was trying to manage a patient with a chronic disease. Whether the problem was CHF, poorly controlled...
Healthcare Musings For May 29, 2020
May 29, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, 100,000 And Counting With A Very Stable Genius Leading The Way This has been a very difficult week for all of us. 100,000 is a very large number of people. The Rose Bowl seats 92,542. I spent a long time...
Thoughts While Embarking On An Uncertain Summer
I had been looking forward to a little respite over the Memorial Day weekend from the daily COVID news. Are you tired of reading about COVID-19? I am weary of writing about it, but it is like a bad dream from which I can not awaken. I am obsessed with the...
Healthcare Musings For May 22, 2020
May 22, 2020 Dear Interested Readers: Chaos Borne Of History, Culture, Choice and COVID-19 When I was in that phase of childhood that Erickson referred to as “Industry vs. Inferiority,” somewhere between 6 and 11, I became a student and was...
looking At The Future Through The Lense of COVID
How long has it been since you felt comfortable standing less than six feet from someone who is not a member of your household? As you look forward to Memorial Day this coming weekend or past that to the Fourth of July, or Labor Day, is it possible for you to...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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