Healthcare Musings For June 12, 2026
June 12, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Interesting Changes In Medical Education If you read my letter from last Friday, you know that I was writing from Boston, where my wife and I had gone for my medical school class reunion. Our minds play tricks on...
Healthcare Musings For June 5, 2026
June 5, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Paul Krugman, Round 3 This week’s letter completes a three-part review of Paul Krugman’s series on the potential for healthcare to be a defining issue in the 2026 mid-term elections and the 2028 presidential...
Healthcare Musings For May 22, 2026
May 22, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, If We Hope To Move Ahead Someday, We Need To Know How We Got Here. Last week’s letter was a bit of a downer. I reported that the Wellesley Offices of Atrius Health had told my wife that she needed to go elsewhere to...
Healthcare Musings For May 15, 2026
May 15, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, A Sunnami of Change My wife spends a lot of time on social media. While scrolling through Instagram this week, she came across a quote from Andrew Weinstein that sums up the disgust so many of us feel as we...
Healthcare Musings For April 3, 2026
April 3, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Moral Injury and Burnout: Different, But Both Challenge The Future Of Healthcare In 2005, I was 60 years old and beginning to think about when I might retire. I was very busy practicing full-time in the outpatient...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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