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...
Healthcare Musings For March 25, 2022

Healthcare Musings For March 25, 2022

  March 25, 2022 Dear Interested Readers,   To Live in Challenging Times   My goal for this week’s letter was to shift back to writing more directly about healthcare. Despite my plans, I found it hard to completely ignore the Senate hearings on the...
Healthcare Musings For January 7, 2022

Healthcare Musings For January 7, 2022

January 7, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Thoughts on COVID, January 6th, And The Future of Healthcare In the Bleak Midwinter   If you remember my multiple previous comments about “In the Bleak Midwinter,” a poem by the English poet Christina Rossetti,...
Healthcare Musings For December 3, 2021

Healthcare Musings For December 3, 2021

December 3, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   If There Are Four Americas, What Does That Mean For Healthcare?   We all are aware of the deep bipartisan divide that stymies attempts to improve access to healthcare and lower its cost for all consumers. The same...
Healthcare Musings For November 12, 2021

Healthcare Musings For November 12, 2021

  November 12, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Veterans Day and Our Social Programs   Last week I introduced you to the podcast, Going for Broke, which is hosted by former NPR broadcaster Ray Suarez and produced by a collaboration between The Nation and the...