Healthcare Musings For 17 January 2020
17 January 2020 Dear Interested Readers, The Power and Importance To Healthcare Of Dr. King’s “Letter From A Birmingham Jail” Why are black people sicker, and why do they die earlier, than other racial groups? Many factors likely...
Growing The Good In The World: Nomination For Best Thought Provoking Film
The Oscar nominations for 2020 were presented yesterday. Did the nominations match up with the list of recent films and performances that you thought were most noteworthy? As I looked at the list, and thought about the movies that I have seen, I realized that I...
Healthcare Musings For 10 January 2020
10 January 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Do We Need To Better Understanding How Our Values Vary Before We Can Reform Healthcare? I am always excited when I see an interesting article in the “Perspective Section” of the New England Journal of...
Can A For Profit Practice Improve the Social Determinants Of Health With Medicaid Dollars ?
One of my favorite experiences is getting an email from an old friend and colleague. Better yet is getting an email from an old colleague who is still an “interested reader.” The “trifecta” of experiences associated with an email from an old friend and...
Healthcare Musings For 3 January 2020
3 January 2020 Dear Interested Readers, What Is Our Role In Addressing The Diseases of Despair? In 2015 we were all shocked to learn from the Nobel prize winning work of Angus Deaton of Princeton University and his wife Anne Case, who is also a...
Goodbye 2019, Hello to the 20s
I am so glad that it is going to be the 20s tomorrow. Bye-bye to a so-so decade. This New Year should be very interesting. There should be events that occur this year that will have a long term significance in our collective experience. I always embrace the New...
Healthcare Musings For 27 December 2019
27 December 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Looking Back At 2019 As We Think About 2020 I am a maker of New Year’s resolutions. It’s that time of year again. Looking back on 2019 I did a pretty good job. I had some partial successes, and some of my...
Hope, Peace, Joy, Love: What the Holidays Are All About
This year Christmas falls in the middle of Hanukkah. I think the overlap creates an opportunity to celebrate the deeper meaning that is shared between these overlapping religious traditions. Both holidays are celebrated near the winter solstice, a time...
Healthcare Musings For 20 December 2019
20 December 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Thoughts At The Winter Solstice The Winter Solstice this year occurs tomorrow, December 21, at 11:20 PM while I am waiting for the opening skit of Saturday NIght Live. It will be the shortest day of the...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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