Healthcare Musings For February 4, 2022

Healthcare Musings For February 4, 2022

by | Feb 4, 2022 | a personal testimony, COVID uncertainty, Dr. George Vaillant, Dr. Paul Batalden, E. Stanley Jones, Equity, Featured Post, Health in America, Inequality in Healthcare, Mark Twain's wisdom, Martin Luther King Jr, Medical Quality, Rainer Maria Rilke, The Triple Aim, VUCA, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare

  February 4, 2022 Dear Interested Readers,   Maintaining Perspective While Living with Uncertainty    Most Monday mornings at 9 AM I click on a Zoom link and join a conversation with five of my friends. We are all “mostly retired.” One participant is a...
A Perspective From the Other Side of the Sheet

A Perspective From the Other Side of the Sheet

by | Jun 11, 2019 | a personal testimony, and Underuse of Care, Burnout, Delivery, Healthcare in 2019, Medical Quality, Practice Improvement, Professional Satisfaction, The Triple Aim

In 1991 William Hurt starred in an interesting movie called “The Doctor.” The plot was simple. A highly skilled and well respected, but egotistical and self centered surgeon gets cancer. You follow him through his discovery of compassion as he contends with his own...
Medical Professionalism, The Quality of Care, and Population Health

Medical Professionalism, The Quality of Care, and Population Health

by | Oct 16, 2018 | Era 3: the moral era, Featured Post, Medical Professionalism, Medical Quality, Population Health, The Quality Chasm, The Triple Aim

This last weekend my wife and I enjoyed the visit of an Interested Reader and his wife. It was a short visit.  They arrived late on a rainy Saturday afternoon. They left too early for a walk on Sunday morning.  We did have time for a great conversation in front of a...