Healthcare Musings For May 3, 2024

Healthcare Musings For May 3, 2024

May 3, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Improving Healthcare Will Require Courage   Protestant ministers of my father’s era would frequently focus their sermons on the promise of John 3:16.     For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten...
Healthcare Musings For March 1, 2024

Healthcare Musings For March 1, 2024

March 1, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Quality Defined Us   I have gained a new perspective on how to structure what remains of the story of the development of my medical-moral sensibilities. The story up till now has been mostly delivered in chronological...
Healthcare Musings For February 23, 2024

Healthcare Musings For February 23, 2024

February 23, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Old Connections For Current Progress   When I look back on the almost six years that I was leading Harvard Vanguard and Atrius Health it is probably impossible for me to give each activity and each contributor...
Healthcare Musings For April 21, 2023

Healthcare Musings For April 21, 2023

April 21, 2023 Dear Interested Readers,   My First Encounter With Chat GPT: I Welcome the Use of AI in Medicine.     When I joined Harvard Community Health Plan in 1975 I was well aware of the fact that I was joining an active experiment that was...
Healthcare Musings For September 16, 2022

Healthcare Musings For September 16, 2022

September 16, 2022 Dear Interested Readers,   Rethinking How We Deliver Care   In last week’s letter, I tried to describe the disappointments and controversies currently associated with ACOs. Like a serialized Netflix presentation I want to begin by...
Healthcare Musings For November 26, 2021

Healthcare Musings For November 26, 2021

November 26, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   Thanksgivings For The Opportunities For Service In Troubled Times   I hope that by now you have experienced a resolution of any Thanksgiving Day indigestion or mental distress that might have arisen from temporary...