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 February 18, 2022

Healthcare Musings For February 18, 2022

February 18, 2022   Dear Interested Readers,   Musings on an Anniversary   I published my first “Friday letter” on February 22, 2008. It was the last day of my first week on the job as the Interim CEO of Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates and Atrius...
Healthcare Musings For September 24, 2021

Healthcare Musings For September 24, 2021

  September 24, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   Thinking About the (Compromised) Future of Primary Care   I have always thought of myself as a primary care physician. When I joined the practice at Harvard Community Health Plan as their only cardiologist...
Healthcare Musings For March 5, 2021

Healthcare Musings For March 5, 2021

  March 5, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   More Thoughts About The Importance of Primary Care   Now that Donald Trump is off Twitter and mostly out of sight except for occasional appearances at places like CPAC, I find that I have more time to think...
We Need to Treat the Transformation of Primary Care Organization and Finance As An Urgent Need

We Need to Treat the Transformation of Primary Care Organization and Finance As An Urgent Need

  The latest edition of the New England Journal of Medicine was waiting for me in my mailbox yesterday when I dropped by the post office. I was delighted to see that it was the March 4th edition and I was happy to get it on time. The mail comes very irregularly...