Healthcare Musings for 19 October 2018
19 October 2018 Dear Interested Readers, “Systemness” as Nirvana This week I have had the pleasure of attending the 5th Annual ATLAS conference in Boston. ATLAS is an acronym for Annual Thought Leadership on Access Symposium. It is the annual...
Medical Professionalism, The Quality of Care, and Population Health
This last weekend my wife and I enjoyed the visit of an Interested Reader and his wife. It was a short visit. They arrived late on a rainy Saturday afternoon. They left too early for a walk on Sunday morning. We did have time for a great conversation in front of a...
You Can’t Get There From Here
There is a lot of wisdom and a call for strategic thinking behind the wisdom of the old Maine aphorism, “You can’t get there from here.” The phrase has been around a lot longer than the Marshall Dodge and Bob Bryan, “Bert and I” comedy routines. The phrase is the...
Healthcare Musings for 28 September 2018
28 September 2018 Dear Interested Readers, This Week’s News Makes Me Think of Berwick’s Era Three in Medicine It has been an unusual week in the news. One advantage of being retired is that you can listen in real time to some pretty bizarre things...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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