Healthcare Musings For 15 February 2019
15 February 2019 Dear Interested Readers, A Brief Note From Vacation About Lessons From Edison and Ford We have been traveling around Florida for the past week and a half, and I am on vacation time. I like traveling with a fluid agenda. A flexible...
Kudos To Atrius Health For Staying On Track
I like trains. Perhaps it is because my maternal grandfather worked all of his life for the Seaboard Railroad. Some of my earliest memories are of going down to the train station with him when we would visit the little town in North Carolina where I have had family...
Healthcare Musings For 8 February 2019
8 February 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Imagine That! Last Sunday the Associate Minister at my church delivered a wonderfully crafted sermon entitled “Imagine.” She was not asking us to daydream about what might happen that evening in Atlanta as the...
It’s Time For A Change In How We Look At Hospitals
The hospital in my little town was one hundred years old this last year. It was launched by three local physicians, Dr. Nathan Griffin, Dr. Charles Lamson and Dr. Anna Littlefield, in collaboration with women in the community. A local woman of some prominence, Jane...
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...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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