Healthcare Musings for 19 October 2018
19 October 2018 Dear Interested Readers, “Systemness” as Nirvana This week I have had the pleasure of attending the 5th Annual ATLAS conference in Boston. ATLAS is an acronym for Annual Thought Leadership on Access Symposium. It is the annual...
Medical Professionalism, The Quality of Care, and Population Health
This last weekend my wife and I enjoyed the visit of an Interested Reader and his wife. It was a short visit. They arrived late on a rainy Saturday afternoon. They left too early for a walk on Sunday morning. We did have time for a great conversation in front of a...
Healthcare Musings For 12 October 2018
12 October 2018 Dear Interested Readers, Back to Box 4 In the post earlier this week entitled “You Can’t Get There From Here!” I wrote: The obvious answer to the conundrum of “You can’t get there from here!” is to go to some place from...
You Can’t Get There From Here
There is a lot of wisdom and a call for strategic thinking behind the wisdom of the old Maine aphorism, “You can’t get there from here.” The phrase has been around a lot longer than the Marshall Dodge and Bob Bryan, “Bert and I” comedy routines. The phrase is the...
Healthcare Musings for 5 October 2018
5 October 2018 Dear Interested Readers, Lean Fosters Critical Thinking I loved medical school and my years as an intern, resident, and fellow. What really appealed to me was that the approach to the patient that I was taught seemed to be a pathway...
Thinking About Crossing The Quality Chasm
I have often written about the importance of the book Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century. You may never have read the book or even have a copy on a shelf somewhere in your office or home where it is collecting dust, but you should...
Healthcare Musings for 28 September 2018
28 September 2018 Dear Interested Readers, This Week’s News Makes Me Think of Berwick’s Era Three in Medicine It has been an unusual week in the news. One advantage of being retired is that you can listen in real time to some pretty bizarre things...
Care of the Frail Elderly
When we talk about the care of the elderly we are often focused on the expense of care at the end of life. There is no question that this is a serious issue that deserves consideration since it may constitute as much as 11% of all healthcare spending. Just knowing how...
Healthcare Musings for 21 September 2018
21 September 2018 Dear Interested Readers, Overuse, Misuse, and Underuse: Hallmarks of Suboptimal Practice and a Barrier To a Better Future Healthcare will definitely be an important, if not the top issue in the November midterm elections....Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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