Healthcare Musings For February 7, 2025

Healthcare Musings For February 7, 2025

7 February 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   As The Chaos Continues, I Want to Reflect On Primary Care, But Can’t.   In a New York Times opinion piece entitled “This Isn’t Reform. It’s Sabotage.” written by David Wallace-Wells and published on Wednesday...
Healthcare Musings For January 31, 2025

Healthcare Musings For January 31, 2025

January 31, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   Trump’s Campaign of Strategic Chaos Continues: Implications For Healthcare   Over the last week, President Trump has challenged Democrats to a game of political “Whack-a-Mole” with a flurry of outrageous executive...
Healthcare Musings For January 24, 2025

Healthcare Musings For January 24, 2025

January 24, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   A Wild Week Makes Me Wonder About What Comes Next   I didn’t watch Trump’s inauguration. From the reviews I have read of his speech and the event that replaced the parade where he was signing executive orders and...
Healthcare Musings For January 17, 2025

Healthcare Musings For January 17, 2025

January 17, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   It’s a New Year, a New Government, and a Very New Day Coming   The New Year is slowly building some momentum. As there is increasing certainty about who will populate the Trump cabinet, we will have more clarity...
Healthcare Musings For January 10, 2025

Healthcare Musings For January 10, 2025

January 10, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   Opposites and Uncertainties   Late Tuesday afternoon, I was doing my home PT program when my wife turned on the local evening news and we discovered the television presentation of Jimmy Carter’s casket being...
Healthcare Musings For January 3, 2025

Healthcare Musings For January 3, 2025

January 3, 2025 Dear Interested Readers,   My Jimmy Carter Musings    In the very early spring of 1976, I decided to take a short trip to Bermuda. After the stress of my first year in practice, which followed all the stresses of my medical school years,...
Healthcare Musings December 27, 2024

Healthcare Musings December 27, 2024

December 27, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Strategy Formation Looking Forward   If you read my post from last week, written in response to Charles Handy’s death, you might remember the comment about how Handy contended that almost everyone has a...
Healthcare Musings For December 20, 2024

Healthcare Musings For December 20, 2024

December 20, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Advice From A Recently Departed Compassionate Guru   Last Sunday, I was enjoying a slow day. I was sitting by the fireplace in my living room, which you can see in today’s header when I received a text from Marci...
Healthcare Musing For December 12, 2024

Healthcare Musing For December 12, 2024

December 13, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Bracing For The Worst While Clinging To Hope   We have endured a very bizarre month since the election. The only good thing about it is that time feels like it is moving very fast. One month down and only...
Healthcare Musings For December 6, 2024

Healthcare Musings For December 6, 2024

December 6, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Thinking About Healthcare During A Season of Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love In Conflict With Disappointment, Conflict and Fear    My lake is frozen. There is snow on the ground. The sky is clear. There is abundant...