Healthcare Musings For 12 October 2018
12 October 2018 Dear Interested Readers, Back to Box 4 In the post earlier this week entitled “You Can’t Get There From Here!” I wrote: The obvious answer to the conundrum of “You can’t get there from here!” is to go to some place from...
You Can’t Get There From Here
There is a lot of wisdom and a call for strategic thinking behind the wisdom of the old Maine aphorism, “You can’t get there from here.” The phrase has been around a lot longer than the Marshall Dodge and Bob Bryan, “Bert and I” comedy routines. The phrase is the...
Healthcare Musings for 7 September 2018
7 September 2018 Dear Interested Readers, Countering Despair, Maybe “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop. That’s Stein’s Law. Herbert Stein was a bright man. He was a conservative economist, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a...
Healthcare Musings for 31 August 2018
31 August 2018 Dear Interested Readers, Whataboutism, Pivoting, Economic Injustice, and Healthcare Lately I have been asking people in my circle of acquaintances what they think about “whataboutism.” I have gotten many blank stares which indicates to me that some...
Understanding How the Amazing Success of the 9.9 Percent is a Risk to Better Healthcare for Everyone
I saw aristocracy up close at Harvard Medical School. I quickly realized that some of my classmates were from families that were either power brokers in New York or Washington, or were the elite of American medicine. I discerned that I had been slotted into the class...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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