Healthcare Musings for 28 December 2018
28 December 2018 Dear Interested Readers “Zwischen den Jahren” Is a Good Time For Reflection We have a friend in Germany who lived with us as an au pair more than thirty years ago. She now has her own family and a successful public relations...
Tis The Season To Be Jolly, and Try To Be Positive
I spend a lot of time with my memories. I have very few regrets and an abundance of warm fuzzy moments that come to mind when I reflect on all the mostly rewarding and joyful years that I spent in the practice of medicine. Some of my warmest memories are from the...
Healthcare Musings For 21 December 2018
21 December 2018 Dear Interested Readers, Finding the Balance in Practice I have known and respected Dr. Tom Lee, the Chief Medical Officer of Press Ganey, since he was a house officer and cardiology fellow at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in...
Will It Ever End?
Since the latest open enrollment period for the ACA ended on December 15, I thought that now would be a good time to review all of the administrative attacks that the Trump administration had made on this much maligned law. It amazes me that a law that has given so...
Healthcare Musings For 14 December 2018
14 December 2014 Dear Interested Readers, Sustainability, a Foundational Concern for Healthcare Late Wednesday afternoon I decided to take a walk, since the hike in the woods that I took with a friend earlier in the day had been more about...
Physicians and the “Wicked Problems” of Healthcare
For several years after I moved into administration I was a regular attendee of the twice yearly meetings of the Group Practice Improvement Network. GPIN’s description of itself is straight forward: GPIN is a nonprofit organization created in 1993 by the...
Healthcare Musings For 7 December 2018
7 December 2018 Dear Interested Readers, A Potpourri of Feelings and Observations Some weeks it is beyond my ability to finally decide on one subject for these notes. It occurs to me that most weeks this letter to you does not live up to its billing as “musings;”...
Is “Medicare For All” A Real Possibility?
Last Wednesday my wife and I drove down to Boston so that she could do a little holiday shopping with a friend while I saw the nurse practitioner who was going to do my periodic health review and give me a flu shot. Somewhere between New London and Concord on...
Healthcare Musings for 30 November 2018
30 November 2018 Dear Interested Readers, Hidden Tribes and the Future of Healthcare Last spring I read The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided By Politics and Religion. It was written by Jonathan Haidt who is a “moral and political”...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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