Healthcare Musings for 1 February 2019
1 February 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Poverty in the Midst of Plenty, Stress, and Health When I look back on my professional life I realize that my practice was primarily populated by individuals and families that were mostly from the middle...
Healthcare Musings For 18 January 2019
18 January 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Don Berwick On Our Responsibility to Address the Social Determinants of Health If you have not read the last few postings, let me suggest that you quickly catch up by skimming last Friday’s note. In that...
Remembering Dr. King’s Views on Poverty
Today would have been Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s ninetieth birthday. In my opinion the three most positive moral figures of the twentieth century were Dr. King, Mother Teresa, and Gandhi. Over the last several years I have been increasingly aware of the impact...
Applying Dr. King’s Dream to Healthcare in 2018
Not much has changed in the experience of many since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr In the days before the fiftieth anniversary...
Racism, Poverty, Injustice, Inequality, and Healthcare Disparities: Different Sides of the Same Problem
A small group of people in my community has been meeting recently to examine how we may be more effective in our charitable activities for our community. Our definition of community is not confined to the limits of New London, but is defined more as a region that...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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