Healthcare Musings For 15 November 2019

Healthcare Musings For 15 November 2019

by | Nov 15, 2019 | a personal testimony, Dean Robert Ebert, Dr Joel Alpert, Dr. Edward Masters, Dr. Hermann Blumgart, Dr. Marshall Wolf, Featured Post, Francis Peabody and "The Care of the Patient", Population Health, Primary Care Challenges, Professionalism, The Triple Aim

15 November 2019 Dear Interested Readers,   More Thoughts on Professionalism and Primary Care   I enjoyed writing last Tuesday about healthcare in Hawaii and the Hawaiian expression of our nationwide problems in primary care staffing. When I write my...
Hawaii’s Primary Care Crisis

Hawaii’s Primary Care Crisis

by | Nov 12, 2019 | Hawaii's Doctor Shortage, healthcare for the rural and urban poor, Primary Care Challenges, Social Determinants of Health, The Challenges to Be Met If We to Have Universal Coverage, The Triple Aim, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare

  Whenever I travel, I like to look around to assess what it might be like to give care or receive care in the places that I visit. As I write this post, I am flying home from eleven days in Hawaii, where unlike most of the tourists, I was checking out where...
Healthcare Musings For 8 November 2019

Healthcare Musings For 8 November 2019

by | Nov 8, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Healthcare as a Right, History of Healthcare Reform, Jill Lepore, Medicare For All, states' rights, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim

  8 November 2019 Dear Interested Readers,   Why Medicare for All Is The Best Choice, But An Unlikely Outcome No Matter Who Wins   I know that I am writing to sophisticated readers. Much of what follows may be boringly redundant or a statement of the...
Don Berwick to the Rescue (of Elizabeth Warren)

Don Berwick to the Rescue (of Elizabeth Warren)

by | Nov 5, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, Don Berwick, Elizabeth Warren's Medicare for All Plan, Era 3: the moral era, healthcare finance, Medicare For All, The Triple Aim

  These days, if you are disconnected from the world for just twenty four hours, you miss a lot. At 5:45 AM last Friday, my wife and I got up at a friend’s home in Needham to go to the airport in time to board a flight at 8:25 AM in Boston that was headed...