Looking Beyond the Expectation of “…the hardest, saddest week…”
Sunday is a busy day for me now as we practice social distancing. I attend church online and then watch CBS Sunday Morning followed by the NBC, CBS, and ABC Sunday morning political reviews. I can not force myself to watch Fox News Sunday where Surgeon General...
Healthcare Musings For April 3, 2020
April 3, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, The Acute Presentation Of A Chronic Problem In less than a month after I finished my every other night on call schedule as an intern at the old Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and began to enjoy the luxury of...
Do We Stand In The Doorway Of A Better World?
I have been trying unsuccessfully to give some attention to something other than the rising number of victims of the coronavirus. I analyze the progression of my intellectual and emotional responses to COVID-19 along a timeline that runs along the same track of...
Healthcare Musings For March 27, 2020
March 27, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, It’s Been Another Mega VUCA Moment. What’s Up Next? How Will It End? What Will We Learn? This last week can be summarized quite succinctly as yet another mega VUCA moment in our nation’s history....
The President’s Challenge to Correctly Sequence the Treatment of the Virus and the Economy.
Yesterday, I scored two rolls of toilet paper at the one grocery store in my town. I felt good about my accomplishment until I got home and thought about what it meant to find joy in toilet paper. I had volunteered to do the shopping, and my wife’s last request...
Healthcare Musings For March 20, 2020
March 20, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, There Is Evidence That We Deserved A Better Effort I hope that you are well and accommodating to this strange collective experience. All is safe and well in my new world where social distancing directs our...
Looking For Leadership And The Truth In The Crescendo Of The COVID-19 Pandemic
It is St. Patrick’s Day, but the bars are closed, and there will be no parade. It feels as if we are in one of those pivotal moments that we will talk about for years to come. Some people say that America comes together in moments of crisis. We will be...
Healthcare Musings For March 13, 2020
March 13, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Revealed: The Folly Of Healthcare For Some In An Uncertain World I do not know where to start in the expression of my feelings about the rapid evolution of our national experience with the COVID-19...
A Lesson In Connectedness
It has been another bizarre week. During times like this in the past, for example during the “dot com” bust of 2000, I might have just shrugged my shoulders and uttered a small prayer asking for personal protection before returning to more important...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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