Healthcare Musings For March 1, 2024

Healthcare Musings For March 1, 2024

March 1, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Quality Defined Us   I have gained a new perspective on how to structure what remains of the story of the development of my medical-moral sensibilities. The story up till now has been mostly delivered in chronological...
Healthcare Musings For February 23, 2024

Healthcare Musings For February 23, 2024

February 23, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Old Connections For Current Progress   When I look back on the almost six years that I was leading Harvard Vanguard and Atrius Health it is probably impossible for me to give each activity and each contributor...
Healthcare Musings For September 16, 2022

Healthcare Musings For September 16, 2022

September 16, 2022 Dear Interested Readers,   Rethinking How We Deliver Care   In last week’s letter, I tried to describe the disappointments and controversies currently associated with ACOs. Like a serialized Netflix presentation I want to begin by...
Healthcare Musings For September 9, 2022

Healthcare Musings For September 9, 2022

September 9, 2022 Dear Interested Readers,   Musing About ACO Disappointments   This week I have been thinking, or more accurately “musing,”  about the current status of ACOs. “Musing” seems to me to be a word that has more depth and feeling than “thinking”,...
Healthcare Musings For July 15, 2022

Healthcare Musings For July 15, 2022

July 15, 2022 Dear Interested Readers,   Thoughts on Dualism, The “War of Attrition” in Ukraine, Inequality In Value-Based Reimbursement, and Inherent Biases in Medicine.    From time to time when I am thinking about all the human misery in the world that is...