Healthcare Musings for 1 February 2019
1 February 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Poverty in the Midst of Plenty, Stress, and Health When I look back on my professional life I realize that my practice was primarily populated by individuals and families that were mostly from the middle...
Reflections on Dr. Ebert’s “Moonshot”
One thing that I am learning about first hand these days is ageism. I have experienced having young clerks walk right past me as if I was invisible to serve a younger customer who has just appeared. There is a wider gulf between generations than just familiarity with...
Healthcare Musings Fro 25 January 2019
25 January 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Who Is Responsible? A few weeks ago, for the first post of the year, I returned to writing about the intersection of poverty and healthcare. One motivation was the realization that this year was the...
The Challenge of Integrating Population Health With Social Programs
Change is slow, and time flies. It has been twelve years since 2007, and changes that were discussed then are still works in progress now. 2007 was a big year for me. I did not know it, but 2007 would be my last year of full time practice and part time leadership as...
Healthcare Musings For 18 January 2019
18 January 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Don Berwick On Our Responsibility to Address the Social Determinants of Health If you have not read the last few postings, let me suggest that you quickly catch up by skimming last Friday’s note. In that...
Remembering Dr. King’s Views on Poverty
Today would have been Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s ninetieth birthday. In my opinion the three most positive moral figures of the twentieth century were Dr. King, Mother Teresa, and Gandhi. Over the last several years I have been increasingly aware of the impact...
Healthcare Musings for 11 January 2011
11 January 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Thesis, Antithesis, and Synthesis: Developing a Poverty Dialog I began my writing almost eleven years ago as a device that I hoped might promote a dialog within our practice. I felt that we had challenges ahead,...
Poverty and The Care of The Patient
I was apprehensive when I sent out last Friday’s “Healthcare Musings.” The main section of the letter was entitled “We Must Address Poverty and the Social Determinants of Health.” I was concerned that some readers might not consider discussing poverty as an...
Healthcare Musings For 4 January 2018
4 January 2019 Dear Interested Readers, We Must Address Poverty and the Social Determinants of Health I have the opinion that most Americans do not understand or spend much time thinking about the term “social determinants of health”, or connect...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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