Healthcare Musings For May 1, 2020
May 1, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Too Soon For Me Goodbye to April! We began the month with about 17 million unemployed Americans and finished the month with over 30 million, or 20% of the workforce. The sad fact is that just as we are...
Words of Wisdom From Tom and Dennis
Over the past six weeks VUCA, the acronym for volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous, has passed through my mind on countless occasions as I tried to think about how unexpectedly, rapidly, definitely, and devastatingly the world had changed. Almost as...
Taking The Next Step When You’re Walking In The Dark
We have been warned that the world we knew on March 12 will never return. One hears that when the pandemic ends that there will be a “new normal.” There have been many who have tried to imagine what our world will be like when we step out into the...
Healthcare Musings For April 3, 2020
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...
Do We Stand In The Doorway Of A Better World?
I have been trying unsuccessfully to give some attention to something other than the rising number of victims of the coronavirus. I analyze the progression of my intellectual and emotional responses to COVID-19 along a timeline that runs along the same track of...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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