The Future of Care As Seen Through the Lens of The COVID-19 Pandemic
My wife and I were recently watching the PBS program “The Vote” when it occurred to me how long it takes to achieve social change. The story of Women’s Suffrage is an international saga that really spans a few thousand years. It was not until 2015 when Suadi...
Healthcare Musings For June 19, 2020
June 19, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Is “Living On Tulsa Time” Appropriate For These Times? Donald Ray Williams is gone now, but he is in the Country Music Hall of Fame. Williams sang many hit songs, but one in particular, “Tulsa Time,” written...
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...
Discovering The Healthcare Wisdom of Communitarianism In An Old Book
More often than I like to admit, I am surprised and embarrassed by my lack of familiarity with something that is news to me that has been general knowledge for others for some time. It happened again this week. I had never heard of communitarianism or Amitai...
Memories And Ruminations From Florida On Primary Day In New Hampshire
My wife and I have been traveling since last Thursday. We are in Florida, but my eye has been on the weather and the presidential primary in New Hampshire. We left in a snowstorm that I am told evolved into a traffic paralyzing ice storm, followed by more snow,...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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