Healthcare Musings For June 10, 2022

Healthcare Musings For June 10, 2022

June 10, 2022 Dear Interested Readers,   Are We Too Far Gone To Protect and Improve Healthcare?   It has been an anxious week for me. I have been waiting a long time to hear from the House committee investigating the January 6th, 2021 attack on the Capitol...
Healthcare Musings For March 12, 2021

Healthcare Musings For March 12, 2021

  March 12, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   Happy For A Little Relief While Still Looking For An End Of Misery After One Strange Year    Most of us remember in vivid detail where we were on 9/11/2001 when we first heard of the planes crashing into the...
More Losses To COVID and the Heavy Administrative Burden We Bare

More Losses To COVID and the Heavy Administrative Burden We Bare

  That we have lost 500,000 souls to COVID-19 is hard to process. It really doesn’t help much to hear 500,000 dead Americans from the COVID pandemic is more lives lost than in our summed casualties of World War II, the Korean Conflict, and the War in Vietnam. I...
Does Tom Brady Have Something To Teach Us?

Does Tom Brady Have Something To Teach Us?

  By 6:30 on Sunday evening, I was filled to overflowing with Super Bowl hype. How many times can you hear the “G.O.A.T.” versus the “best of these times” line before you are ready to throw something at the television? The only recurrent line that has drawn more...
Unprecedented, Like Nothing We Have Seen Before

Unprecedented, Like Nothing We Have Seen Before

  As I mentioned a few weeks ago, the Oxford Languages “word of the year” for 2020 was “pandemic.” There was so much change in our language usage in 2020 related to the COVID experience that Oxford Languages which is the parent organization of the Oxford English...
Goodbye 2020! Did We Learn Anything?

Goodbye 2020! Did We Learn Anything?

  Never before have I been happier to see a year finally end. 2020 was a traumatic experience. For many years, the humorist Dave Barry has been writing a column at the end of the year that summarizes the past events of the year lest we forget them. This year’s...