Healthcare Musings For 23 August 2019

Healthcare Musings For 23 August 2019

by | Aug 23, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, ACA, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Brett Kavanaugh, Burnout, Featured Post, History of Healthcare Reform, Quadruple Aim, The Triple Aim

23 August 2019 Dear Interested Readers,   Let’s Not Forget The Triple Aim As We Debate The Future of Healthcare   I am not really complaining, but I have been waiting for a very long time. Living in expectation on the cusp of a better future is not easy. Let...
A Perspective From the Other Side of the Sheet

A Perspective From the Other Side of the Sheet

by | Jun 11, 2019 | a personal testimony, and Underuse of Care, Burnout, Delivery, Healthcare in 2019, Medical Quality, Practice Improvement, Professional Satisfaction, The Triple Aim

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...
An Enthusiastic Invitation To Be Disruptive

An Enthusiastic Invitation To Be Disruptive

by | Apr 30, 2019 | Consumerism in Healthcare, Costs, Culture, Disruptive Innovation, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare Transformation, Population Health, Social Determinants of Health, Zeev Neuwirth

One of my occasional delights over the past few years has been to have a friend or former colleague whom I have admired and learned from send me a manuscript or a recently published book that they have written. I am always a little apprehensive when what has been...