Healthcare Musings For June 24, 2022

Healthcare Musings For June 24, 2022

June 24, 2022 Dear Interested Readers,   Slip Slidin’ Away   From time to time since election night in November 2016, I have found myself humming the melody of Paul Simon’s 1977 hit, “Slip Slidin’ Away” while the words pass through my mind. The fourth verse...
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 June 3, 2022

Healthcare Musings For June 3, 2022

June 3, 2022 Dear Interested Readers,   More Problems Than Power In The Search For Solutions In A Divided Land   In 2007, a few months before I became the CEO of Atrius Health and Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Dr. Steven Schroeder’s “Shattuck Lecture”...
Healthcare Musings For May 19, 2022

Healthcare Musings For May 19, 2022

May 20, 2022 Dear Interested Readers,   IIliberalism And The Future Of Healthcare   It is easy to get lost in the despair of the moment. My newspapers and TV commentators tell me more than I want to know about mass shootings in Buffalo and Southern...
Healthcare Musings For April 29, 2022

Healthcare Musings For April 29, 2022

  April 29, 2022 Dear Interested Readers,   Is Healthcare Enlightened Now or Suffering From Postmodern Cynicism and Burnout?   About five years ago, I was delighted to get the good news from Stephen Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard, that the...
Healthcare Musings For April 15, 2022

Healthcare Musings For April 15, 2022

April 15, 2022 Dear Interested Readers,   Easter In Ukraine and Loosely Connected Musings About “Disorder” and “Reorder” in Healthcare    As is true for many others, the continuing war in Ukraine has stimulated my fascination with the bravery and willingness...