Healthcare Musings For June 19, 2020

Healthcare Musings For June 19, 2020

  June 19, 2020 Dear Interested Readers,   Is “Living On Tulsa Time” Appropriate For These Times?   Donald Ray Williams is gone now, but he is in the Country Music Hall of Fame. Williams sang many hit songs, but one in particular, “Tulsa Time,” written...
Pandemic Fatigue and Follies

Pandemic Fatigue and Follies

  In retrospect the admonition to “Beware the Ides of March,” is not an exact fit for the explosion of COVID-19 in America, but close enough. The 15th of March has a long history of being a bad day. In ancient Rome it was both a religious holiday and the day when...
Healthcare Musings For June 5, 2020

Healthcare Musings For June 5, 2020

  June 5, 2020 Dear Interested Readers,   It’s Never Been This Late Before   Many times during my practice life I would try to have a conversation with a patient about some change in lifestyle or a choice that they might make to avoid some future...
America’s Pre Existing Condition

America’s Pre Existing Condition

  There is a certain wisdom in Yogi Berra’s observation that, “It is deja vu all over again.” When I was practicing I would frequently have that thought as I was trying to manage a patient with a chronic disease. Whether the problem was CHF, poorly controlled...
looking At The Future Through The Lense of COVID

looking At The Future Through The Lense of COVID

  How long has it been since you felt comfortable standing less than six feet from someone who is not a member of your household? As you look forward to Memorial Day this coming weekend or past that to the Fourth of July, or Labor Day, is it possible for you to...