Healthcare Musings For 13 December 2019
13 December 2019 Dear Interested Readers, How Good Are Things? It Depends On Who You Are And Where You Live. It’s hard to put the drama in Washington out of mind. If you have had the time, you may, like me, have spent many hours watching the House...
Complex Questions Laced With Strong Emotions
I spent most of Monday watching the impeachment hearings on CNN. Monday was a very dreary day. The sun did not shine through the rain, and the gloom of the day was enhanced by what I heard on television. The high point of the day, its only saving grace, was the...
Healthcare Musings For 6 December 2019
6 December 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Grass Root Efforts To Address The Social Determinants of Health: Introduction To Partners For Community Wellness David Brooks’ recent best seller, The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life was an...
A Closer Look At Our Attitudes About Universal Coverage
After last Friday’s missive had been up on the Internet for a little while, I got a question from an interested reader who lives nearby and frequently walks with me. He wrote: Gene, Do I know the person you walked with? Peter’s video is amazing....
Healthcare Musings For 29 November 2019
29 November 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Have You Heard Enough In The Democratic Debates About Healthcare? It’s been a little more than a week since most of the Democratic contenders for the nomination for president gathered in Atlanta for their...
Tips On Avoiding Controversy At The Thanksgiving Table
Family dinners are much of the “glue” that holds my family together. The picture in today’s header was not taken at a Thanksgiving gathering but it is an excellent representation of the many gatherings around my mother’s table that I cherish in memory. This...
Healthcare Musings For 22 November 2019
22 November 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Listening and Speaking Across Deep Divisions I think that one of my ministers, Reverend Cindy Johnson, was anticipating the downside of all of the listening that we would be doing this week to the...
Chronic Disease Management and the Challenges of Impending Workforce Shortages
The header for today’s post is a picture of a couple, both in their nineties, who are patiently waiting for a doctor’s appointment. I know a lot about this couple. They are my parents. They were in the vanguard of a growing movement, seniors living into their...
Healthcare Musings For 15 November 2019
15 November 2019 Dear Interested Readers, More Thoughts on Professionalism and Primary Care I enjoyed writing last Tuesday about healthcare in Hawaii and the Hawaiian expression of our nationwide problems in primary care staffing. When I write my...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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