Healthcare Musings For June 14, 2024

Healthcare Musings For June 14, 2024

June 14, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Reflections On This Moment In Healthcare   When I began to write these Friday letters sixteen years ago in mid-February 2008,  it was much easier than my task now. All I needed to do then to discover plenty to write...
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...
Healthcare Musings For September 24, 2021

Healthcare Musings For September 24, 2021

  September 24, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   Thinking About the (Compromised) Future of Primary Care   I have always thought of myself as a primary care physician. When I joined the practice at Harvard Community Health Plan as their only cardiologist...
A Perspective From the Other Side of the Sheet

A Perspective From the Other Side of the Sheet

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...