Over the past several months, I have been thinking a lot about the crisis of primary care in this country. That crisis has become very vivid as I have watched […]
This past week, I spent two and a half days at a conference put on by the Lown Institute on Right Care in healthcare. The Lown Institute was started by […]
Although I have written about Pope Francis’ extraordinary Xmas speech to the Roman Catholic Curia, I don’t usually write about the Catholic Church. Although I am married to a lapsed [...]
This is the script for the fourth installment of Daniel Zwerdling’s amazing series on injured nurses. It shows that hospital systems can act to protect nurses if they have the […]
As I have been reading Atul Gawande’s new book Being Mortal, I am fascinated by the fact that it has taken this surgeon so long to discover the realities […]