Healthcare Musings For September 6, 2024
6 September 2024 Dear Interested Readers, The Healthcare Challenges In Small-town and Rural America Are Coming To The City If you live in rural America, a small town, or in a less desirable neighborhood in America, your access to primary care, your...
Healthcare Musings: March 22, 2024
March 22, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, The Shortest Friday Letter Ever As directed, my wife and I arrived at 9:15 at the Dartmouth same-day surgical unit last Monday. The process was very smooth. I was given a hospital gown, little booties, and a paper...
Healthcare Musings for 28 December 2018
28 December 2018 Dear Interested Readers “Zwischen den Jahren” Is a Good Time For Reflection We have a friend in Germany who lived with us as an au pair more than thirty years ago. She now has her own family and a successful public relations...
Looking Back to Think Forward
Looking back over 2017 I am moved to say, “You can’t make this stuff up!” That expression is a meme/cliche that entered our culture sometime since the advent of Facebook. It has been used more and more during the evolving chaos of the first year of the Trump...
Patient Access, Patient Engagement, and the Triple Aim
The Triple Aim will never be realized without increasing our ability to engage patients in their own care, and nothing is more critical to patient engagement than the access patients have to their care providers. I recently attended the fourth Annual Thought...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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