Healthcare Musings For August 16, 2024

Healthcare Musings For August 16, 2024

August 16, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Our Professional Challenges Are Mounting   Have you read the Hippocratic Oath? At about 2500 years old, it is a bit out of date, sort of long, probably not written by Hippocrates, and refers to gods that no longer...
Healthcare Musings For August 9, 2024

Healthcare Musings For August 9, 2024

August 9, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Governor Tim Walz Understands The Social Determinants of Health   I was delighted when Vice President Harris chose Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota as her running mate on Tuesday. I had been only vaguely aware of...
Healthcare Musings For August 2, 2024

Healthcare Musings For August 2, 2024

August 2, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   What Would Kamala Harris Do For Healthcare If Elected?   For almost two weeks now newspapers, podcasts, and television commentators have been busy trying to present Kamala Harris to many potential voters, especially...
Healtcare Musings For July 26, 2024

Healtcare Musings For July 26, 2024

July 26, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Thank You, President Biden   When I think back on the events that seem to lead to unexpected places, there is always an abrupt transition from a moment when everything seemed normal to a new unfamiliar reality.  In an...
Healthcare Musings For July 19, 2024

Healthcare Musings For July 19, 2024

July 19, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   It Has Been A Very Strange Week   We never know what unexpected event the next day or even the next hour might bring to us. What were you doing late last Saturday afternoon while Biden was in a contentious meeting...
Healthcare Musings July 12, 2024

Healthcare Musings July 12, 2024

July 12, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Democracy, Women’s Reproductive Rights, Healthcare, And Perhaps Joe Biden’s Age Are On the Ballot This November   I suspect that I am more focused on politics than many healthcare professionals. Maybe my focus and...
Healthcare Musings For July 5, 2024

Healthcare Musings For July 5, 2024

July 5, 2024   Dear Interested Readers   Let’s Think about Joe   There has been something weird going on in cyberspace. Three weeks ago the notification service that I use each week to send an email to you saying that there is a new letter for you to...
Healthcare Musings For June 28, 2024

Healthcare Musings For June 28, 2024

June 24, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   The Big Debate   This has been an unusual week. Waiting for a big event has always been hard for me. As a child, it always seemed like my birthday or Christmas would never come. Waiting nine months to meet a new baby...
Healthcare Musings For June 21, 2024

Healthcare Musings For June 21, 2024

June 21, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Reflecting On The Real Significance of Juneteenth   Our newest national holiday, Juneteenth, was celebrated this past Wednesday, June 19th. It was well publicized, but my assumption is that for many Americans the day...
Healthcare Musings For June 14, 2024

Healthcare Musings For June 14, 2024

June 14, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Reflections On This Moment In Healthcare   When I began to write these Friday letters sixteen years ago in mid-February 2008,  it was much easier than my task now. All I needed to do then to discover plenty to write...