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...
Healthcare Musings For March 31, 2023

Healthcare Musings For March 31, 2023

March 31, 2023 Dear Interested Readers,   There Are Big Problems In the Pipeline For New Doctors     It’s been a long time since “Match Day 1971,” and I don’t remember the scene as well as I remember the emotions. I was delighted to learn that I had...
Healthcare Musings For March 24, 2023

Healthcare Musings For March 24, 2023

March 24, 2023 Dear Interested Readers,   “Woke” Healthcare: Implicit Racism, DEI, ESG, Biases, Intersectionality, and Duality in Healthcare   I don’t know if you noticed it or not, but some politicians who seek to gain political advantage on the right tried...