Healthcare Musings For 21st June 2019
21 June 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Critical Choices and Uncommon Courage I have a new “hero,” guru, and role model. She is Sister Joan Chittister, an 83 year old Benedictine nun. Her latest book, The Time Is Now: A Call to Uncommon Courage has...
Finding Joy In Practice
My wife volunteers a half day a week at a thrift shop that is run by our local VNA. The aging crowd in our community donates great items for sale either before or after their demise. Some know that their children don’t value what they once thought were the earmarks of...
Healthcare Musings For 14 June 2019
14 June 2019 Dear Interested Readers, It’s Not All About Us An interested reader contacted me this week for some advice about an inspirational speaker for her medical group. They are celebrating practice values as a part of an effort to fight burnout and...
A Perspective From the Other Side of the Sheet
In 1991 William Hurt starred in an interesting movie called “The Doctor.” The plot was simple. A highly skilled and well respected, but egotistical and self centered surgeon gets cancer. You follow him through his discovery of compassion as he contends with his own...
Healthcare Musings For 7 June 2019
7 June 2019 Dear Interested Readers This and That Some weeks it is hard for me to decide what the topic of this letter should be. Longtime readers might remember when I would take on three of four different subjects in the same letter. At the time I was...
4 June 2019: Improving the Health of the Nation Through The Green New Deal
Sometimes it feels to me like there are too many balls in the air. Back when I was practicing medicine, a time that is quickly fading from view as I try to use the rearview mirror of memory, I would categorize my colleagues by the way they approached problems as...
Healthcare Musings For 31 May 2019
31 May 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Relationalism and the Joy of Practice I imagine that other retirees do what I do and spend a lot of time thinking about what happened during the years of their careers. The goal is to be able to say, “It wasn’t...
Leadership In A Community of Practice
One big benefit of being a part of “community” is to be the recipient of the concern of others when something does not go as expected. I know that many faithful readers were scratching their heads wondering what might have happened when by 3:30 last Friday they had...
Healthcare Musings for 24-May-2019
24 May 2019 Dear Interested Readers, The Cost of Care, Workforce Shortages and the Need For Innovation The title of the Strategy Healthcare post earlier this week, “Maybe We Should Look For More Healthcare Professionals at Dunkin Donuts” may have sounded...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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