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...
Are You Ready For Round Two?
You can be sure that tonight and tomorrow night I will be interested in the outcome of the Red Sox/Tampa Bay games, but I won’t be watching. My eyes and ears will be tuned to round two of the Democratic Presidential Primary Debates in Detroit. Since the last debate,...
Healthcare Musings For 26 July 2019
26 July 2019 Â Dear Interested Readers, Â The Movie Got Mixed Reviews. I Think I Will Read the Book. Â Being retired has its benefits and its liabilities. Since I did not have to go to work on Wednesday, or on any day, I was able to invest the whole day listening to...
Creative Destruction, Adaptive Change, and the Continuing Movement Toward Universal Coverage
The picture in the header of this post is my attempt to create an image that represents Creative Destruction, or if you prefer a more dramatic term, Schumpeter’s gale. I will get back to those terms, but first let me fully explain the meaning of the image by...
Healthcare Musings For 19 July 2019
19 July 2019 Dear Interested Readers, How Are You Doing in the Midst of The Swirl Around You? Are You Keeping Your Head [On]? For a long time now I have been wondering how you are doing. I know that your days are full of challenges that often arise in the most...
Many Things Have Changed Despite Resistance to Change
Sometimes when my mind is wandering around with no particular place to go I like to think about all the things that have changed in my lifetime. For example, our first telephone number that I can remember was just three digits. My grandmother was on a “party line”...
Healthcare Musings For 12 July 2019
12 July 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Flipping the Conversation From Burnout to Joy Almost two years ago I reviewed The Patient Centered Value System: Transforming Healthcare Through Co-Design by Anthony M. DiGioia and Eve Shapiro. Then a little over a...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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