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...
More Losses To COVID and the Heavy Administrative Burden We Bare

More Losses To COVID and the Heavy Administrative Burden We Bare

  That we have lost 500,000 souls to COVID-19 is hard to process. It really doesn’t help much to hear 500,000 dead Americans from the COVID pandemic is more lives lost than in our summed casualties of World War II, the Korean Conflict, and the War in Vietnam. I...
Healthcare Musings For February 12, 2021

Healthcare Musings For February 12, 2021

  February 12, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   Health System Accountability for Heath Care, Quality, Equity, and Cost   It’s been a remarkable week in Washington. One of the benefits of retirement is that every day is Saturday. I have spent most of...
Healthcare Musings For June 12, 2020

Healthcare Musings For June 12, 2020

  June 12, 2020 Dear Interested Readers,   Hope For Transformational Change   Interesting and surprising things happen in cyberspace. I send these letters to you through a platform called WordPress. I get responses from you in two ways. Some of you just...
Do We Stand In The Doorway Of A Better World?

Do We Stand In The Doorway Of A Better World?

  I have been trying unsuccessfully to give some attention to something other than the rising number of victims of the coronavirus. I analyze the progression of my intellectual and emotional responses to COVID-19 along a timeline that runs along the same track of...