Remembering Colleagues and Culture
Every now and then I see an obituary or read an article in a journal that can send me back in time more than forty years in my professional life and up to seventy years in the totality of life. There is a big “scrapbook” in my brain where I log a lot of “screen time.”...
Healthcare Musings For 16 November 2018
16 November 2018 Dear Interested Readers, Things To Ponder I have recently finished reading Jill Lapore’s These Truths: a History of the United States. Lepore finishes the book with a forward looking question: Barack Obama had urged...
Atul Gawande Tells Us Why We Hate Our Computers
This week Atul Gawande has published “The Upgrade” in The New Yorker. It is the best article I have read on computers in practice. The title in the online edition is the more appropriate “Why Doctors Hate Their Computers. He uses stories that feel like...
Team Based Care Is Essential to the Future of Healthcare
I consider myself to be incredibly fortunate. From the moment I walked into my first practice session at the the “old” Harvard Community Health Plan to the last day of practice life, I was always part of a team. The constitution of the “team” varied from time to time...
What Floats Your Boat and Moves It?
What floats your boat and moves it? Perhaps that is a crude way of asking about both where your values arise and what motivates you. For some reason whenever issues of either values or motivation become the subject, I think of my experience as a Boy Scout. I sometimes...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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