COVID Fatigue Is A Creeping Problem, But There Is Even More That Worries Me.

COVID Fatigue Is A Creeping Problem, But There Is Even More That Worries Me.

by | Sep 15, 2020 | 2020 Presidential Debates, Authoritarianism, Covid-19, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Featured Post, Public Health, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Universal Access

  Summer is fading fast into early fall where I live. I have already had a few roaring fires in my fireplace as overnight temps slip into the high thirties. Our fireplace has an elevated hearth where I enjoy sitting as I soak up warmth from a primeval source that...
Healthcare Musings For September 11, 2020

Healthcare Musings For September 11, 2020

by | Sep 11, 2020 | a personal testimony, Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Housing shortages as a social determinant of health, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, Opioid Epidemic, out of pocket healthcare costs, Poverty and healthcare, Remembering 9/11, Six Domains of Quality, Social Determinants of Health

  September 11, 2020 Dear Interested Readers,   It’s Nineteen Years, And It Seems Like Yesterday   You need to be in your mid eighties to remember anything about the Holocaust or World War II. If, like me, you are 75, you might remember the Korean War....
Eight weeks of Increased Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity Lie Ahead

Eight weeks of Increased Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity Lie Ahead

by | Sep 8, 2020 | Future of Heathcare, Health Care Policy in the Wake of COVID-19, Public Health, Racial Inequality, Social Determinants of Health, Strategy, The 2020 election, The Triple Aim, VUCA

  November 3rd lies exactly eight weeks into the future. In the interim we will be in a period of extreme VUCA. If you are a new or casual reader of these postings you may not understand what I am implying by saying it will be a period of extreme VUCA. Even if...
Healthcare Musings For September 4, 2020

Healthcare Musings For September 4, 2020

by | Sep 4, 2020 | Atul Gawande, Covid-19, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Featured Post, Paul Romer, Population Health Management, Public Health, Reopening the economy, Social Determinants of Health, The 2020 election, The de emphasis of public health, The importance of testing in pandemic management

September 4, 2020 Dear Interested Readers,   Our Biggest Threat Is Our Incompetence   This is a week when we get a treat. Atul Gawande has published another insightful article built on a position that he has expressed before. On several occasions Gawande has...
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

by | Sep 1, 2020 | Covid-19, Elizabeth McGlynn, Featured Post, Health Care Policy in the Wake of COVID-19, Healthcare Outcomes, Poverty and healthcare, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health, Sustainability, The 2020 election

  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...