The Presidential Sweepstakes and Healthcare
Cleveland Edition Perhaps against my better judgement this posting and next week’s posting will draw from the events, emotions and the  intellectual content of the conventions of our two parties. I approach this self directed assignment with “fear and trembling”. I...
Comments on the Future of Practice
As we peer into the future and ponder what lies ahead for the practice of medicine we can be sure that the answer will vary across the spectrum of practice. To examine the potential changes for every type of practice would require a very extensive effort. If we focus...
Envisioning Tomorrow’s Better Patient Experience
It is always difficult to think about the future. Will it be more of the same, a great leap forward, or a big step backward? Can we see something inevitable on the horizon? Is there something that will be totally unexpected like 9/11 that leads to big surprises? As is...
Choices: Understanding Risk, Loss, Persuasion and Compulsion in Healthcare
My wife had a simple mantra that she repeated each time our boys left the house to go out with their friends. She would say, “Make good choices!”. Her inference was that there was loss associated with bad choices. Never before have patients, families, doctors, other...
Money and Health; Relationships We Must Understand and Fix
Doctors and hospitals worry a lot about what they get paid. It surprised me several years ago to discover that a majority of the doctors and managers in our organization did not have an in depth understanding of the mechanisms and issues that really determined how we...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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