Healthcare Musings for October 9, 2020
October 9, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Thoughts About Healthcare Now and in the Future While Awaiting the Election Years ago, when I was a Boy Scout, I garnered all the merit badges associated with the waterfront at camp: swimming, canoeing,...
Healthcare Musings For 23 August 2019
23 August 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Let’s Not Forget The Triple Aim As We Debate The Future of Healthcare I am not really complaining, but I have been waiting for a very long time. Living in expectation on the cusp of a better future is not easy. Let...
You Can’t Get There From Here
There is a lot of wisdom and a call for strategic thinking behind the wisdom of the old Maine aphorism, “You can’t get there from here.” The phrase has been around a lot longer than the Marshall Dodge and Bob Bryan, “Bert and I” comedy routines. The phrase is the...
Healthcare Musings for 28 September 2018
28 September 2018 Dear Interested Readers, This Week’s News Makes Me Think of Berwick’s Era Three in Medicine It has been an unusual week in the news. One advantage of being retired is that you can listen in real time to some pretty bizarre things...
Healthcare Musings for 7 September 2018
7 September 2018 Dear Interested Readers, Countering Despair, Maybe “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop. That’s Stein’s Law. Herbert Stein was a bright man. He was a conservative economist, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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