Healthcare Musings For May 12, 2023

Healthcare Musings For May 12, 2023

May 12, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, The Debt Limit Crisis Threatens Rural Healthcare   I admit to being a news junky. Some people don’t want to keep up with the news because they say it is so negative. I understand that for them listening to the talking heads...
Healthcare Musings For May 5, 2023

Healthcare Musings For May 5, 2023

May 5, 2023   Dear Interested Readers,   Medicine and the Struggle For the Soul of America   One of the members of my Monday morning book group is a woman who is a retired minister and hospital chaplain whose oldest daughter is a physician’s assistant...
Healthcare Musings For April 21, 2023

Healthcare Musings For April 21, 2023

April 21, 2023 Dear Interested Readers,   My First Encounter With Chat GPT: I Welcome the Use of AI in Medicine.     When I joined Harvard Community Health Plan in 1975 I was well aware of the fact that I was joining an active experiment that was...
Healthcare Musings For April 14, 2023

Healthcare Musings For April 14, 2023

April 14, 2023 Dear Interested Readers,   Examining The Political Determinants of Health   Last fall, an Interested Reader who lives in Florida sent me an article by Dr. Eric Reinhardt entitled “Medicine for the People: As more and more doctors awaken to the...
Healthcare Musings For April 7, 2023

Healthcare Musings For April 7, 2023

April 7, 2023 Dear Interested Readers,   Can You Believe That Both Trump and the ACA are in Court?   This week’s news had some variation from what I expected. First, many of the talking heads of television journalists and the pundits that I read in the New...