Healthcare Musings For August 21, 2020

Healthcare Musings For August 21, 2020

  August 21, 2020 Dear Interested Readers.   What A Week!   The post on Tuesday reviewed the first night of the Democratic Convention. The high point of the evening was the speech by Michelle Obama. Some of the commentators I heard suggested that it was...
Healthcare Musings For August 14, 2020

Healthcare Musings For August 14, 2020

  August 14, 2020 Dear Interested Readers,   The Next 81 Days Of The Campaign For Better Health   Yesterday morning I was up early, about 8AM. My Florida family was trying to get away early on their trip back to Miami. I was not enthusiastic about them...
We Are Leaderless in the Midst of a Systems Failure

We Are Leaderless in the Midst of a Systems Failure

  In each of the last two posts I have mentioned Paul Batladen’s famous observation about the output of “systems.” Last Tuesday I wrote:   The great physician and advocate for continuous improvement, Paul Batalden of Dartmouth, has reminded us frequently...
Healthcare Musings For August 7, 2020

Healthcare Musings For August 7, 2020

  August 7, 2020 Dear Interested Readers,   The Pandemic’s Message To Us About Healthcare Policy   Earlier this week in a post entitled “The Peril We Face Has Been A Long Time Coming,” I reviewed an excellent article by Ed Jong who writes for The...
Healthcare Musings For July 24, 2020

Healthcare Musings For July 24, 2020

  July 24, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, We Are Not As “Exceptional” As We Thought   As a child, I developed a love of American history. My family traveled more extensively east of the Mississippi than to the west, but the east was the home of colonial...
A Week Of Loss, A Time For Remembrance And Dedication

A Week Of Loss, A Time For Remembrance And Dedication

  In the week immediately following their deaths on the same day, it would be hard to write a post in the age of Black Lives Matter and our increasing awareness of the role of white privilege and economic inequality in the persistence of healthcare disparities...