“It is hard to understand and communicate the uncertainty that comes with evolving science, the changing recommendations as we learn more, the vaccine that didn’t do all that was initially promised. It has become even harder with the erosion of t…
Category: Public Health & Policy
Are hospital CEOs are responding to the realities of health care?
On December 14th, 2021, hospital CEOs met under the guise of The Transformative CEO Healthcare Summit to brainstorm novel ideas in health care and to create “a new world ecosystem.” Themes included how to utilize medical data, how technolog…
How inflation fueled health care costs
The 3-hour concert was over. On the way back to the car, the excitement of it all kept us singing the lyrical masterpiece. I turned on the ignition and typed in our address. “You have 1 hour and 35 minutes to go,” the GPS alerted me. I glan…
Guns, the Supreme Court, and physicians’ voices [PODCAST]
“When my patients asked me about losing weight, I would say, ‘Eat less and exercise more.’ I know that it is more complicated than that. There are psychological and socioeconomic factors. There is bariatric surgery and there are medic…
Better health care for less, version 2.0
An excerpt from Modern Healthcare Delivery, Deliverance or Debacle: A Glimpse From the Inside Out. “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” – Albert Einstein In…
Fund this: Policies can fill medical funding gaps for all [PODCAST]
This episode is sponsored by Athelas, the number one provider of remote patient monitoring. “Instead of trying to earn a spot on a talk show to help a person dealing with costly treatments for illness, perhaps it is best to lobby policymakers to …
5 topics I don’t want to read about in 2022 (but I probably will anyway)
As 2021 passed into 2022, I was hoping new stories would emerge and dominate the medical landscape. So, I did a bit of crowdsourcing on social media and among colleagues. Here are five topics I’d like to read less about — if for no other reason t…
Solving the low-acuity emergency department problem
Before I worked as a medical scribe, I didn’t realize how many mildly ill people visited the emergency department (ED). In my first few weeks, though, I learned that patients with minor complaints, such as sprains, cavities, rashes, and common co…
How strong policies can improve guardianship
Millions of Americans each week watch as fictional television matriarch Rebecca Pearson, in the NBC-TV series, “This Is Us,” struggles with frustrations of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease and fear of an unknown health future. In the c…
How strong policies can improve guardianship
Millions of Americans each week watch as fictional television matriarch Rebecca Pearson, in the NBC-TV series, “This Is Us,” struggles with frustrations of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease and fear of an unknown health future. In the c…
