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 2019Â 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...
What Can Mr Rogers Teach Us About Population Health, Patient Centeredness, And Practice?
I am not a movie critic. This will be the first “review of a movie” that I have written. Many movies these days are not worth the time one must invest to watch them, but I can look back with great fondness on many movies. I connect some of them to important...
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...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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