Healthcare Musings For September 4, 2020
September 4, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Our Biggest Threat Is Our Incompetence This is a week when we get a treat. Atul Gawande has published another insightful article built on a position that he has expressed before. On several occasions Gawande has...
Contemplating The The Future of Healthcare Outcomes and of Healthcare Disparities In A Second Trump Term
The conventions are over, and the election lies 63 days, nine short weeks, into the future. It did not take President Trump long to hit the campaign trial. He landed at the Manchester Airport less than twenty four hours after desecrating the South Lawn of the...
Healthcare Musings For August 28, 2020
August 28, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, From Here to the Election, Expect the Unusual and Bizarre It has been a violent and disturbing week as we have witnessed yet more dramatic displays of the effect of our continuing abuse of the environment and our...
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...
Healthcare Musings For August 21, 2020
August 21, 2020 Dear Interested Readers. What A Week! The post on Tuesday reviewed the first night of the Democratic Convention. The high point of the evening was the speech by Michelle Obama. Some of the commentators I heard suggested that it was...
The Political Conventions Have Begun. The Future of Healthcare Depends On What Follows
The political conventions for 2020 began last night. I’ve been watching these events longer than I have been paying attention to the Olympics. I first paid attention to the Olympics in 1956, but do not remember seeing them on TV. I remember watching the 1952...
Healthcare Musings For August 14, 2020
August 14, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, The Next 81 Days Of The Campaign For Better Health Yesterday morning I was up early, about 8AM. My Florida family was trying to get away early on their trip back to Miami. I was not enthusiastic about them...
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...
Healthcare Musings For August 7, 2020
August 7, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, The Pandemic’s Message To Us About Healthcare Policy Earlier this week in a post entitled “The Peril We Face Has Been A Long Time Coming,” I reviewed an excellent article by Ed Jong who writes for The...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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