Writing the good read
I’m going to start a list, compiled from my much-too-frequent interactions with physicians and other healthcare professionals, of things that these professionals say and do that they probably shouldn’t. Some sound funny, but are still potentially problematic. * When you go see your OB/GYN before becoming sexually active after a break, and you ask the…
I lost Saturday. I went to bed on Friday night, and when I couldn’t sleep, I read into the wee hours. I fell asleep at about 5:30 a.m. My intention was to get up around noon. When I first awoke, it was late afternoon, and I wasn’t able to get up. Darling Son always asks,…
Washington State passed a two year budget the other day. It cuts funding for medical services for the poor and plugs budget gaps with a 1.9 percent cut in teachers’ pay. Other school personnel will lose 3 percent of their paychecks. For the life of me, I cannot understand that this is who we have…
I have written about healthcare and the healthcare industry for more than 15 years now. In that time, I have interviewed some of the highest of the high muckety-mucks in the industry. I interviewed Donald Berwick, now the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, when he was with the Institute for Healthcare…