Healthcare Musings For October 2,  2020

Healthcare Musings For October 2, 2020

  October 2, 2020 Dear Interested Readers,   Thinking About the Future of Healthcare and the 2020 Election After The First Debate   [I finished writing what follows last night at about 10:30 PM Mountain Time, 12:30 AM on the East Coast. While I was...
A Revisionist Look Back, And A Dystopian Look Forward At The Republican Convention

A Revisionist Look Back, And A Dystopian Look Forward At The Republican Convention

  I haven’t been looking forward to this week with much excitement. It makes me very anxious to listen to the president speak. When I see ordinary people turn a blind eye to his deficiencies, especially his cruelties, I am disoriented, and become anxious...
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...
If I Don’t Check the Weather It Won’t Rain On My Picnic!

If I Don’t Check the Weather It Won’t Rain On My Picnic!

  What would you think if you heard someone say, “If I don’t check the weather, it won’t rain on my picnic!”? I guess the answer depends on the context. It could be a tongue in cheek joke, or it could be an expression of a very disconnected concept about how...