Healthcare Musings For March 17, 2023

Healthcare Musings For March 17, 2023

by | Mar 17, 2023 | Arlie Russell Hochschild, Biases, Communitarianism, Conservative Values, Economic inequality, Evictions, Featured Post, food Insecurity, Healthcare Outcomes, Housing shortages as a social determinant of health, Inequality, Life Expectancy, Martin Luther King Jr, Matthew Desmond, Poverty and healthcare, Progressive Values, Social Determinants of Health

March 17, 2023 Dear Interested Readers,   Desmond Implies that Progressives and Conservatives Share Some Responsibility for Poverty: What Needs to Change to Improve the Social Determinants of Health?     Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! Before you drink...
Looking Beyond the Expectation of “…the hardest, saddest week…”

Looking Beyond the Expectation of “…the hardest, saddest week…”

by | Apr 7, 2020 | Communitarianism, Community Action Agencies, coronavirus, Covid-19, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Empathy, Featured Post, Presidential Politics, Surgeon General Jerome Adams, The World After COVID-19, Who Is My Neighbor?

  Sunday is a busy day for me now as we practice social distancing. I attend church online and then watch CBS Sunday Morning followed by the NBC, CBS, and ABC Sunday morning political reviews. I can not force myself to watch Fox News Sunday where Surgeon General...
Healthcare Musings For April 3, 2020

Healthcare Musings For April 3, 2020

by | Apr 3, 2020 | Communitarianism, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Empathy, Equity, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Inequality in Healthcare, Jill Lepore, Pandemic Management, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health

  April 3, 2020 Dear Interested Readers,   The Acute Presentation Of A Chronic Problem   In less than a month after I finished my every other night on call schedule as an intern at the old Peter Bent  Brigham Hospital and began to enjoy the luxury of...
Discovering The Healthcare Wisdom of Communitarianism In An Old Book

Discovering The Healthcare Wisdom of Communitarianism In An Old Book

by | Feb 18, 2020 | Amitai Etzioni, Communitarianism, Conservative Values, Era 3: the moral era, Featured Post, Liberal Values, Polarization in America, Progressive Values, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim

  More often than I like to admit, I am surprised and embarrassed by my lack of familiarity with something that is news to me that has been general knowledge for others for some time. It happened again this week. I had never heard of communitarianism or Amitai...