Transitioning the Conversation from Medicare For All to Medicare for All Who Want It
Since last week’s First Democratic Presidential Primary debates I keep thinking about Medicare for All versus Medicare for All Who Want It. I am sure there are many things about this complex conversation that I do not completely understand, and in that regard I think...
Healthcare Musings For 28 June 2019
28 June 2019 Dear Interested Readers, The Democrats, Healthcare, and More: It’s Complicated For the past two nights we have had our first look at the twenty highest polling contenders for the nomination of the Democratic Party for president....
An Explanation For Readers. Plus, Is It Too Late For Courage?
It was a tough weekend for me. As usual, The Friday “Healthcare Musings” was posted on the Internet at 3 PM on Friday afternoon, but as the minutes, then hours, then days passed without the notice of it existence going out to you I became increasingly distraught....
Healthcare Musings For 21st June 2019
21 June 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Critical Choices and Uncommon Courage I have a new “hero,” guru, and role model. She is Sister Joan Chittister, an 83 year old Benedictine nun. Her latest book, The Time Is Now: A Call to Uncommon Courage has...
Finding Joy In Practice
My wife volunteers a half day a week at a thrift shop that is run by our local VNA. The aging crowd in our community donates great items for sale either before or after their demise. Some know that their children don’t value what they once thought were the earmarks of...
Healthcare Musings For 14 June 2019
14 June 2019 Dear Interested Readers, It’s Not All About Us An interested reader contacted me this week for some advice about an inspirational speaker for her medical group. They are celebrating practice values as a part of an effort to fight burnout and...
A Perspective From the Other Side of the Sheet
In 1991 William Hurt starred in an interesting movie called “The Doctor.” The plot was simple. A highly skilled and well respected, but egotistical and self centered surgeon gets cancer. You follow him through his discovery of compassion as he contends with his own...
Healthcare Musings For 7 June 2019
7 June 2019 Dear Interested Readers This and That Some weeks it is hard for me to decide what the topic of this letter should be. Longtime readers might remember when I would take on three of four different subjects in the same letter. At the time I was...
4 June 2019: Improving the Health of the Nation Through The Green New Deal
Sometimes it feels to me like there are too many balls in the air. Back when I was practicing medicine, a time that is quickly fading from view as I try to use the rearview mirror of memory, I would categorize my colleagues by the way they approached problems as...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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