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...
Healthcare Musings For May 15, 2020
May 15, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, The Challenge: Restart the Economy Without Inducing a Resurgence of COVID-19, and Other Musings I will begin with the “Other Musings” part of what I want to write to you: Somewhere, from someone, I...
Building The New Normal With Lean
As we move into an attempt to recover from the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us have begun to think about how the delivery of healthcare will be changed by what we have experienced. Some have suggested that the pandemic has revealed serious flaws...
Healthcare Musings For May 8, 2020
May 8, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, It’s a Time for Humility, Caution and Focus on Long Term Improvements. It is Not a Time for Arrogance, Abandon, and the Pursuit of Short Term Gains. It’s hard to know what everyone is thinking, and as a...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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