Healthcare Musings For 17 January 2020

Healthcare Musings For 17 January 2020

  17 January 2020 Dear Interested Readers,   The Power and Importance To Healthcare Of Dr. King’s “Letter From A Birmingham Jail”   Why are black people sicker, and why do they die earlier, than other racial groups? Many factors likely...
The Challenge Is Still To Deliver on “These Truths”

The Challenge Is Still To Deliver on “These Truths”

  I was quite gratified that in his recent sixteen hour panorama of Country Music, Ken Burns spent a disproportionate amount of time in episode six on Kris Kristofferson. Kristofferson has always been a favorite of mine. He was an exceptional athlete at Pomona...
Healthcare Musings For 11 October 2019

Healthcare Musings For 11 October 2019

11 October 2019 Dear Interested Readers,   Where Would You Start?   When I listen to politicians talk, at least the ones running for president, the health care problems they are interested in solving are mostly limited to how we achieve universal access and...
Cosgrove and Shore on Expanding Boundaries and Leading Change 

Cosgrove and Shore on Expanding Boundaries and Leading Change 

  Last Friday’s Healthcare Musings began: At four o’clock on Tuesday afternoon I was sitting at a table in the ballroom of the Boston Seaport Hotel at the 6th ATLAS (Annual Thought Leadership Symposium). This year’s conference title was “Expanding Boundaries....
Michelle Obama’s and Robert Ebert’s Concerns About The Health of the Poor

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...