Goodbye 2020! Did We Learn Anything?

Goodbye 2020! Did We Learn Anything?

  Never before have I been happier to see a year finally end. 2020 was a traumatic experience. For many years, the humorist Dave Barry has been writing a column at the end of the year that summarizes the past events of the year lest we forget them. This year’s...
Healthcare Musings For December 18, 2020

Healthcare Musings For December 18, 2020

  December 18, 2020 Dear Interested Readers,   More Musing About What’s Next   Last night I had the unique opportunity to hear Susan Rice speak at a virtual presentation of the Boston Speakers Series. She has an impressive resume and a very interesting...
Fresh Wisdom For These Times From Don Berwick

Fresh Wisdom For These Times From Don Berwick

  I don’t really remember when I first met Don Berwick. He joined Harvard Community Health Plan in the late seventies as a pediatrician. I began my career there a few years earlier in 1975 right out of my training at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital before it...
Contemplating The The Future of Healthcare Outcomes and of Healthcare Disparities In A Second Trump Term

Contemplating The The Future of Healthcare Outcomes and of Healthcare Disparities In A Second Trump Term

  The conventions are over, and the election lies 63 days, nine short weeks, into the future. It did not take President Trump long to hit the campaign trial. He landed at the Manchester Airport less than twenty four hours after desecrating the South Lawn of the...
Primary Care and Rural Health Systems Are Victims of COVID-19. What’s Next For Them?

Primary Care and Rural Health Systems Are Victims of COVID-19. What’s Next For Them?

  I was on a socially distanced walk with my seventeen year old granddaughter this week, and we were talking about how quickly and unexpectedly life has changed. She and her parents usually come every summer for a quick visit. They fly into Logan Airport on a...