Is “Medicare For All” A Real Possibility?
Last Wednesday my wife and I drove down to Boston so that she could do a little holiday shopping with a friend while I saw the nurse practitioner who was going to do my periodic health review and give me a flu shot. Somewhere between New London and Concord on...
Healthcare Musings for 30 November 2018
30 November 2018 Dear Interested Readers, Hidden Tribes and the Future of Healthcare Last spring I read The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided By Politics and Religion. It was written by Jonathan Haidt who is a “moral and political”...
If You Care Enough You Will Try To Make A Difference
Most of the big issues that we fret about seem far beyond our individual ability to make a difference. It is hard for us to look at a big societal issue and imagine just how our individual contributions can matter. I worry about climate change and hope that my efforts...
Michelle Obama’s and Robert Ebert’s Concerns About The Health of the Poor
Much has been written in recent years about medicine and the physician…A cursory survey of what has been written…permits the conclusion that medical science comes off rather well and the doctor’s image not so well. One gains the impression that doctors as...
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...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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