Healthcare Musings For December 19, 2025

Healthcare Musings For December 19, 2025

December 19, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   Remembering During the Holidays That Not Everyone Has Enough to Eat, and Trying to Do Something About It.   “Food insecurity” is a good enough phrase, but my take is that it is a clinical euphemism that takes the...
Healthcare Musings For December 12, 2025

Healthcare Musings For December 12, 2025

December 12, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   I Am Trying to Develop a Little Hope   Now and then, I get an unexpected email response to one of these letters. This week, I got one of those surprises in an email from a longtime reader. He wrote:   Have...
Healthcare Musings For December 5, 2025

Healthcare Musings For December 5, 2025

December 5, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   We Need a New Approach to Healthcare    Looking back on the years 2008-2013, when I had leadership responsibilities at a large and influential medical practice, I have very mixed feelings. I am pleased to have...
Healthcare Musings For November 28, 2025

Healthcare Musings For November 28, 2025

November 28, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   Thoughts at Thanksgiving About Nursing and All That I Am Thankful for and Concerned About in Our Fragile System of Care   I have much for which to be thankful. Today, my belly is still a little stretched from the...
Healthcare Musings For November 21, 2025

Healthcare Musings For November 21, 2025

November 21, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   Thoughts While Visiting Portland, Oregon   Early last Monday, my wife and I were up before dawn in order to get to the airport in Manchester with plenty of time to make it through any unexpected barriers at TSA...