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 19, 2021

Healthcare Musings For February 19, 2021

  February 19, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   An Anniversary   It’s been exactly thirteen years since I wrote my first Friday letter to my colleagues, the staff of Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates. I had been the Interim CEO for a little over a week...
How Do We Strengthen The Nation’s Primary Health Care System?

How Do We Strengthen The Nation’s Primary Health Care System?

If you have avoided these notes for the past few weeks, you may not know that I have been systematically reviewing the recommendations of the Commonwealth Fund’s Task Force On Payment and Delivery System Reform. There are six sections to the report. So far we have...
Does Tom Brady Have Something To Teach Us?

Does Tom Brady Have Something To Teach Us?

  By 6:30 on Sunday evening, I was filled to overflowing with Super Bowl hype. How many times can you hear the “G.O.A.T.” versus the “best of these times” line before you are ready to throw something at the television? The only recurrent line that has drawn more...
Healthcare Musings For February 5, 2021

Healthcare Musings For February 5, 2021

  February 5, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   It’s Time To Start Again    I am sure that I am not alone in my current strange mix of hope and residual fear. I am feeling much better now that Joe Biden is in the Oval office, but prior traumas are hard to...