Fresh Wisdom For These Times From Don Berwick

Fresh Wisdom For These Times From Don Berwick

  I don’t really remember when I first met Don Berwick. He joined Harvard Community Health Plan in the late seventies as a pediatrician. I began my career there a few years earlier in 1975 right out of my training at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital before it...
Trying To Survive The Moment While Waiting For The Slow Evolution of Positive Change

Trying To Survive The Moment While Waiting For The Slow Evolution of Positive Change

  December 11, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Trying To Survive The Moment While Waiting For The Slow Evolution of Positive Change   It has been a gruesome week in Lake Wobegon and across the land. It turns out that even in Lake Wobegon strange and...
Healthcare Musings for December 4, 2020

Healthcare Musings for December 4, 2020

  December 4, 2020 Dear Interested Readers,   Continuing to Look Forward From A Strange Moment In Time   It is very hard to think about the future when you are mired in the realities of a week as disorienting as this past one. Can you believe that the...
Still Processing the Election

Still Processing the Election

  If you are like me, you are wondering when the uncertainty over the election will end. I ask myself several times a day if there is really some path to a second Trump term. His supporters are in the streets proclaiming that they love him and repeating his claim...
Healthcare Musings For November 6, 2020

Healthcare Musings For November 6, 2020

  November 6, 2020  Dear Interested Readers,   Observations During A Nail Biter That Will Determine The Future Of The Country And Healthcare   I have been watching CNN or listening to NPR for most of the time since the polls closed on Tuesday evening....
Can You Believe What’s Happening One Week Before The Election?

Can You Believe What’s Happening One Week Before The Election?

  In one week the retrograde Mercury will be over, Election Day will be behind us, and we will enter the next phase of uncertainty in the process of electing the president. The retrograde has been tough on me these last few weeks. There have been several...