Healthcare Musings For 21st June 2019

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...
A Perspective From the Other Side of the Sheet

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...
4 June 2019: Improving the Health of the Nation Through The Green New Deal

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...
Leadership In A Community of Practice

Leadership In A Community of Practice

One big benefit of being a part of “community” is to be the recipient of the concern of others when something does not go as expected. I know that many faithful readers were scratching their heads wondering what might have happened when by 3:30 last Friday they had...