Building The New Normal With Lean
As we move into an attempt to recover from the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us have begun to think about how the delivery of healthcare will be changed by what we have experienced. Some have suggested that the pandemic has revealed serious flaws...
Healthcare Musings For May 8, 2020
May 8, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, It’s a Time for Humility, Caution and Focus on Long Term Improvements. It is Not a Time for Arrogance, Abandon, and the Pursuit of Short Term Gains. It’s hard to know what everyone is thinking, and as a...
Healthcare Musings For April 24, 2020
April 24, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, A Fear Of Slip Slidin’ Away The changing character of the native population, brought about through unremarked pressures on porous borders; the creation of an increasingly unwieldy and rigid bureaucracy,...
Healthcare Musings For April 10, 2020
April 10, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, COVID-19 Is A Stress Test For Our Country For over forty years I used stress tests to help me solve clinical problems and judge the capacity of my patient to respond to a physical stress. Over the...
Healthcare Musings For April 3, 2020
April 3, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, The Acute Presentation Of A Chronic Problem In less than a month after I finished my every other night on call schedule as an intern at the old Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and began to enjoy the luxury of...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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