Looking Back to Think Forward
Looking back over 2017 I am moved to say, “You can’t make this stuff up!”  That expression is a meme/cliche that entered our culture sometime since the advent of Facebook.  It has been used more and more during the evolving chaos of the first year of the Trump...
The Patient Centered Value System
The Patient Centered Value System: Transforming Healthcare through Co-Design by Anthony M. DiGioia, MD and Eve Shapiro was recently published. The forward was written by Don Berwick. I had the honor of authoring the preface. It was fun to have a really good...
Let’s Keep Trying to Save the Gains of the ACA
It may seem strange to you, but each time I hear that the president and the Republican leadership are making an effort to resuscitate their attempt at repealing and replacing the ACA, I immediately think of the surprising last scene from “Fatal Attraction,” the...
Where We Should Focus
In a recent essay Michael Dowling, the CEO of Northwell, the massive health system with 21 hospitals in metropolitan New York and Long Island, points out that the most frustrating aspect of the current healthcare debate is that “it is ideological and not practical.”...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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