Healthcare Musings For July 4, 2025

Healthcare Musings For July 4, 2025

July 4, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   4th of July Musings In Uncertain Times   If you read this letter on the 4th, I hope that it finds you sharing a great day with good friends, family, or both.  Two hundred and forty-nine years of independence are worth...
Healthcare Musings For June 27, 2025

Healthcare Musings For June 27, 2025

June 27, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   Reflections On A Lifetime Of Practice And The Importance of DEI To Our Health   This coming Tuesday will be the fiftieth anniversary of my first day of post-training medical practice. I was quite nervous as I walked...
Healthcare Musings For June 20, 2025

Healthcare Musings For June 20, 2025

June 20, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   Moving From Distress to Action   Where were you last Saturday? Were you among the 5 million neighbors in all fifty states who showed up to vote with your presence against the policies and performance of our president?...
Healthcare Musings For June 13, 2025

Healthcare Musings For June 13, 2025

June 13, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   It Is Hard To Know What Comes Next And How It Will End   Since January 21st, there has been a new depressing surprise almost every day, or at least every week, and many of these surprises have a direct or indirect...
Healthcare Musings For June 6, 2025

Healthcare Musings For June 6, 2025

June 6, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   Lately, I’ve Been Upset Every Day    The last four and a half months, since President Trump resumed the presidency, have been very stressful for me. I assume that the anxiety and apprehension that I have...
Healthcare Musings For May 30, 2026

Healthcare Musings For May 30, 2026

May 30, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   Education, Research, Academic Freedom, and the Social Determinants of Health   Of all the things our president has done, which are very difficult to understand, nothing has seemed more counterproductive to me than his...
Healthcare Musings For May 23, 2025

Healthcare Musings For May 23, 2025

May 23, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   The New England Journal Comes Through   As you may have noticed, I sometimes reference New England Journal of Medicine articles. Honestly, I have been disappointed by the relative silence of the Journal about the...
Healthcare Musings For May 16, 2025

Healthcare Musings For May 16, 2025

May 16, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   The “One Big Beautiful Bill” and What It Might Do to Healthcare   It has been another week of surprises in our ongoing adventure of the second Trump presidency. Was it a miracle or the “art of the deal” that led to the...
Healthcare Musings For May 9, 2025

Healthcare Musings For May 9, 2025

May 9, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   There Are Increasing Challenges to Practice and Medical Research   Until the 21st of January, the challenge to medical practice and research was how to make faster progress. The last eighty years have been a journey of...
Healthcare Musings For May 2, 2025

Healthcare Musings For May 2, 2025

May 2, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   The First 100 Days of a Bad Dream   I apologize for the excessive attention I have given to the blatant dangers ahead inherent in our reckless president’s personality disorder and destructive ambitions. His...