Healthcare Musings For 10 August 2018
10 August 2018 Dear Interested Reader, Why Is Healthcare Such A Nightmare For Patients (Consumers)? I am sure that as the 2018 election process moves forward from the statewide primaries to final events in the fall the continuing controversies over healthcare will...
Concierge Medicine: Still Not a Good Idea
A few physicians in my community began to try concierge medicine in the mid nineties. My first reaction was, “Harley Street has come to Beacon Street”. If you watch Downton Abbey, Lady Mary Crawley probably took her maid, Anna Bates, to Harley Street when they went to...
Where Healthcare Should Focus in 2016
I have been looking forward to 2016 and asking myself where healthcare should focus in the year ahead. In this connection, Don Berwick’s speech at the 27th Annual IHI Forum had a profound effect on me. You can watch it on YouTube. I appreciated his insightful and...
Attorney General Maura Healey Leads Healthcare Reform
As a member of the Advisory Council to the Health Policy Commission in Massachusetts, I was very interested in following the internet broadcast of the annual HPC Cost Trends Hearings early in October. At the core of the presentations was a debate about healthcare...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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