Healthcare Musings for 23 November 2018
23 November 2018 Dear Interested Readers, A Birthday of Sorts On November 22, 2013 I resumed writing my weekly letter after a three week hiatus. As November had begun I was in the process of transitioning into retirement. The interim management team did not...
Michelle Obama’s and Robert Ebert’s Concerns About The Health of the Poor
Much has been written in recent years about medicine and the physician…A cursory survey of what has been written…permits the conclusion that medical science comes off rather well and the doctor’s image not so well. One gains the impression that doctors as...
Healthcare Musings For 16 November 2018
16 November 2018 Dear Interested Readers, Things To Ponder I have recently finished reading Jill Lapore’s These Truths: a History of the United States. Lepore finishes the book with a forward looking question: Barack Obama had urged...
Atul Gawande Tells Us Why We Hate Our Computers
This week Atul Gawande has published “The Upgrade” in The New Yorker. It is the best article I have read on computers in practice. The title in the online edition is the more appropriate “Why Doctors Hate Their Computers. He uses stories that feel like...
Healthcare Musings for 9 November 2018
9 November 2018 Dear Interested Readers Where From Here? I finished the Strategy Healthcare post for November 6, Election Day, with the following statement: I am hopeful, not optimistic, that this election will initiate a set of events that...
The Midterms Are A Referendum On the Future
I hope that you will be voting today. I also hope that you will make sure to encourage everyone you see to also make the effort. This note is coming out early so that I might emphasize what I expect you already know. This is a very important election. I have heard and...
Healthcare Musings For 2 November 2018
2 November 2018 Dear Interested Readers, Question One On The Massachusetts Ballot Has Lessons To Teach Us I am probably prejudiced against ballot questions, or if you prefer, voter referendums. The disaster for the United Kingdom, Brexit, may be...
Senator Jeff Merkley, A Leader With The Potential To Make A Difference
With the growing concerns about the need for change and the approaching election, last Sunday afternoon my wife and I volunteered to go door to door for our local Democratic Party in a “get out the vote” effort. We do not want to wake up in two weeks on November 7...
Healthcare Musings for 26 October 2018
26 October 2018 Dear Interested Readers, Doing an “A4” on Payment and Delivery System Reform If the term “A4” is a fuzzy concept for you, or is not in your vocabulary, let me refer you back to the Healthcare Musings post for October 12 where you...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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