Healthcare Musings For July 3, 2020

Healthcare Musings For July 3, 2020

  July 3, 2020 Dear Interested Readers,   A Different Kind of Fourth   One of my most cherished possessions is about fifty feet of 8mm film shot by my father between 1948 and 1950. I found several canisters of developed and undeveloped movie film in a...
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...
Are We On the Threshold of a Great Awakening?

Are We On the Threshold of a Great Awakening?

  The header for this post should look familiar since last Friday’s post featured a very similar picture. The picture on last Friday had been taken on the previous Tuesday evening when about 200 people gathered on the New London Town Green to demonstrate their...
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...