Healthcare Musings For January 17, 2025

Healthcare Musings For January 17, 2025

January 17, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   It’s a New Year, a New Government, and a Very New Day Coming   The New Year is slowly building some momentum. As there is increasing certainty about who will populate the Trump cabinet, we will have more clarity...
Healthcare Musings For January 10, 2025

Healthcare Musings For January 10, 2025

January 10, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   Opposites and Uncertainties   Late Tuesday afternoon, I was doing my home PT program when my wife turned on the local evening news and we discovered the television presentation of Jimmy Carter’s casket being...
Healthcare Musings For January 3, 2025

Healthcare Musings For January 3, 2025

January 3, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   My Jimmy Carter Musings    In the very early spring of 1976, I decided to take a short trip to Bermuda. After the stress of my first year in practice, which followed all the stresses of my medical school years,...
Healthcare Musings December 27, 2024

Healthcare Musings December 27, 2024

December 27, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Strategy Formation Looking Forward   If you read my post from last week, written in response to Charles Handy’s death, you might remember the comment about how Handy contended that almost everyone has a...
Healthcare Musings For December 20, 2024

Healthcare Musings For December 20, 2024

December 20, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Advice From A Recently Departed Compassionate Guru   Last Sunday, I was enjoying a slow day. I was sitting by the fireplace in my living room, which you can see in today’s header when I received a text from Marci...
Healthcare Musing For December 12, 2024

Healthcare Musing For December 12, 2024

December 13, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Bracing For The Worst While Clinging To Hope   We have endured a very bizarre month since the election. The only good thing about it is that time feels like it is moving very fast. One month down and only...
Healthcare Musings For December 6, 2024

Healthcare Musings For December 6, 2024

December 6, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Thinking About Healthcare During A Season of Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love In Conflict With Disappointment, Conflict and Fear    My lake is frozen. There is snow on the ground. The sky is clear. There is abundant...
Healthcare Musings For November 29, 2024

Healthcare Musings For November 29, 2024

November 29, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Anxious Times. Can It Get Weirder?    Can a candidate claim a landside if they got less than fifty percent of the vote? Can you say you have a mandate if your raw vote margin was smaller than any popular vote...
Healthcare Musings For November 22, 2024

Healthcare Musings For November 22, 2024

November 22, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   To Survive the Next Four Years, Think Globally and Act Locally   I am tired of reading about the election. I have been both entertained and horrified by President-elect Trump’s announcements of the people that he...
Healthcare Musings For November 15, 2024

Healthcare Musings For November 15, 2024

November 15, 202 Dear Interested Readers, What Happens Next?   I would like to move on from writing about politics, but I can’t deny the impact of politics on the future of our healthcare. The shock, awe, and pain for me of the reelection of Donald Trump have...