Healthcare Musings For 30 August 2019
30 August 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Our Heads Spin From So Many Things To Consider. Are We Talking About What Really Is Important? I am not sure what to expect in the next round of the Democratic debates. I am very happy that there will be only ten...
A Lesson in Critical Thinking
Is it just a small world where connections are closer than any of us imagine? Could it be that there are forces that we don’t yet understand that create connections? Perhaps there is nothing behind connections other than random chance. All of those questions...
Healthcare Musings For 23 August 2019
23 August 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Let’s Not Forget The Triple Aim As We Debate The Future of Healthcare I am not really complaining, but I have been waiting for a very long time. Living in expectation on the cusp of a better future is not easy. Let...
Employer Provided Insurance v. Single Payer Healthcare: Not All the Differences Are Obvious
I admit to having groupie tendencies and team loyalties. The liability of being committed to a favorite entertainer, author, philosophy, religion, type of music, or team is that each is bound to have its problems, inconsistencies, or failures and then those...
Healthcare Musings For 16 August 2019
16 August 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Race and Healthcare The New York Times Magazine has launched a program this month that it is calling “The 1619 Project.” This year is the 400th anniversary of slavery in America. The piece that you will find if you follow...
Tapping Into Big Data To Make Progress On The Triple Aim
I was in the last group of interns selected by Dr George Thorn who was the Chief of Medicine at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital from 1942 until 1972. I began my internship in Medicine on June 20, 1971. That night I was the admitting intern on the male ward, F Main. I...
Healthcare Musings For 9 August 2019
9 August 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Focusing the Conversation in Order to Make Progress Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel is the brother of Rahm Emanuel, former congressman, Barack Obama’s first chief of staff, and later two term mayor of Chicago. Dr. Emanuel was a...
It’s About More Than Guns
Saturday was another bad day in America. El Paso and Dayton have now joined a long list of towns and school names that are synonymous with gun violence and mass killings. This weekend I read and reread the closing lines of a 2017 New York Times article entitled, “What...
Healthcare Musings For 2 August 2019
2 August 2019 Dear Interested Readers, What Have We Learned So Far From Listening To The Democratic Debates? This last week we entertained some old friends from Massachusetts. We were neighbors. We attended the same church. We share many fond...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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