Healthcare Musings For 22 March 2019

Healthcare Musings For 22 March 2019

by | Mar 22, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence (AI), burnout and professional fulfillment, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Healthcare Policy, Innovation, Moral Injury, Payment Models, Population Health, Quadruple Aim, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Watson

  22 March 2019   Dear Interested Readers,   Musing With Friends About Healthcare   This week’s letter lives up to the title of “Healthcare Musings.” The dictionary says that musings are periods of reflection or thought. I would add that when I am...
The Persistent Healthcare Problems of Rural America

The Persistent Healthcare Problems of Rural America

by | Mar 12, 2019 | Community Needs Assessments, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare in Rural America, hospital closings in rural America, Population Health Management, Poverty and healthcare, The Triple Aim

In healthcare there is disappointing truth in the old saw, “The more things change, the more they remain the same.” It is paradoxically true that things are changing all the time. I observe that it is often true that in reference to a particular subject or problem...
Healthcare Musing For 1 March 2019

Healthcare Musing For 1 March 2019

by | Mar 1, 2019 | Bernie Sanders, Democratic control of the House, Economic inequality, Empathy, Era 3: the moral era, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Health in America, Medical Professionalism, Michael Cohen's Testimony, My mother's lessons, Presidential Politics

1 March 2019   Dear Interested Readers   Learning A New Way Of Being In The World Together   This week has been chock-full of important events that fall along the path of our common journey in troubled times. I am not referring to the debate over the...
A Culture of Caring Epitomized In A Picture

A Culture of Caring Epitomized In A Picture

by | Feb 26, 2019 | "The Doctor" by Sir Luke Fildes, Donald Guthrie, Featured Post, Guthrie Clinic, Medical Professionalism, the power of stories, The Triple Aim

If the picture in today’s header seems oddly familiar, you are right. It is a precursor image of the famous picture, “The Doctor” that hangs in the Tate Gallery in London and was painted by the imminent nineteenth century British artist, Sir Luke Fildes.    ...