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...
Confusion About Where We Are. What I Learned About “Overload” From a Trip To The Louvre To See The Mona Lisa
During the past six weeks, but especially over the last couple of weeks as the discussion about ending social isolation has gained momentum, the nation has been united in a curious way. We are united by a shared state of confusion and a lack of clarity about...
Healthcare Musings For May 1, 2020
May 1, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Too Soon For Me Goodbye to April! We began the month with about 17 million unemployed Americans and finished the month with over 30 million, or 20% of the workforce. The sad fact is that just as we are...
Words of Wisdom From Tom and Dennis
Over the past six weeks VUCA, the acronym for volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous, has passed through my mind on countless occasions as I tried to think about how unexpectedly, rapidly, definitely, and devastatingly the world had changed. Almost as...
Healthcare Musings For April 24, 2020
April 24, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, A Fear Of Slip Slidin’ Away The changing character of the native population, brought about through unremarked pressures on porous borders; the creation of an increasingly unwieldy and rigid bureaucracy,...
Now And When
Perhaps the most satisfying part of writing is hearing from you. This week I was delighted to hear from two people for whom I have great respect and some past history. One letter was a discussion of what faces us now; how and when to move toward more normal...
Healthcare Musings For April 17, 2020
April 17, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, It’s Getting Old Already, Let’s Find Ways To Persist I’m giving up the idea of offering analysis about President Trump’s management of the COVID-19 pandemic. There is some debate about whether Abraham...
Taking The Next Step When You’re Walking In The Dark
We have been warned that the world we knew on March 12 will never return. One hears that when the pandemic ends that there will be a “new normal.” There have been many who have tried to imagine what our world will be like when we step out into the...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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