Taking The Next Step When You’re Walking In The Dark

Taking The Next Step When You’re Walking In The Dark

by | Apr 14, 2020 | Covid-19, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Pandemic Management, Paul Romer

    We have been warned that the world we knew on March 12 will never return. One hears that when the pandemic ends that there will be a “new normal.” There have been many who have tried to imagine what our world will be like when we step out into the...
Looking Beyond the Expectation of “…the hardest, saddest week…”

Looking Beyond the Expectation of “…the hardest, saddest week…”

by | Apr 7, 2020 | Communitarianism, Community Action Agencies, coronavirus, Covid-19, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Empathy, Featured Post, Presidential Politics, Surgeon General Jerome Adams, The World After COVID-19, Who Is My Neighbor?

  Sunday is a busy day for me now as we practice social distancing. I attend church online and then watch CBS Sunday Morning followed by the NBC, CBS, and ABC Sunday morning political reviews. I can not force myself to watch Fox News Sunday where Surgeon General...
Healthcare Musings For April 3, 2020

Healthcare Musings For April 3, 2020

by | Apr 3, 2020 | Communitarianism, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Empathy, Equity, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Inequality in Healthcare, Jill Lepore, Pandemic Management, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health

  April 3, 2020 Dear Interested Readers,   The Acute Presentation Of A Chronic Problem   In less than a month after I finished my every other night on call schedule as an intern at the old Peter Bent  Brigham Hospital and began to enjoy the luxury of...
The President’s Challenge to Correctly Sequence the Treatment of the Virus and the Economy.

The President’s Challenge to Correctly Sequence the Treatment of the Virus and the Economy.

by | Mar 24, 2020 | coronavirus, Don Berwick, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Featured Post, Innovation in Healthcare, Population Health, Social Determinants of Health

  Yesterday, I scored two rolls of toilet paper at the one grocery store in my town. I felt good about my accomplishment until I got home and thought about what it meant to find joy in toilet paper. I had volunteered to do the shopping, and my wife’s last request...