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The fields of construction and healthcare hardly seem similar on the surface. One leads to new bridges and airports. The other aims to keep hearts beating and bodies moving. But beneath the [...]

Business leaders want the best healthcare for their employees at reasonable prices. But to make that happen, employers must first understand what they’re up against and untangle the Gordian knot [...]

All healthcare is local (or so they say). Last month, I asked readers of my monthly newsletter how American medicine stacks up to other nations. Are we leading the world or can we be doing [...]

The FDA and CDC approved a second booster for Americans over the age of 50, however, both organizations stopped short of recommending it for everyone who’s eligible. As a result, people are [...]

Last month, we returned to some of the most interesting and controversial questions of the past year, each inspired by the Covid-19 pandemic. With the survey now complete, check out the [...]

It has been a long winter for many Americans. With spring right around the corner, the allure of air travel is in full bloom. Last month’s survey asked readers of this newsletter about their [...]

 I was heartened this week to see so many passionate and caring people gathered together to solve one of healthcare’s most pressing challenges: physician burnout. At the Healthcare Burnout [...]

The January 2022 reader poll asked for opinions about the best ways to manage the highly transmissible variant, which now accounts for 99% of all new cases in the United States. Here are the [...]

Back in March 2020 at the onset of the pandemic, and again in April, I asked readers of this newsletter to quantify their concern over the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). The results showed a [...]

Throughout his presidential campaign and time in office, Joe Biden has made a lot of healthcare promises and outlined a wide variety of healthcare priorities for his administration. Anyone paying [...]

“Change definitely will be happening. And change happening will be difficult.” That’s the message I delivered at the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) Annual Meeting in [...]

Before I was a professor at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business or CEO at The Permanente Medical Group (Kaiser Permanente), I was a very proud, busy and highly satisfied plastic [...]

It is common, when going to the doctor with a medical problem, to imagine the worst-case scenario playing out. Last month, leading up to Halloween, subscribers of my Monthly Musings on American [...]

Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) have been around for more than a decade—created with the idea that integrating care providers across settings (hospitals, primary care, specialty care, etc.) [...]

With the higher transmissibility of the Delta variant, the herd immunity threshold will now require an estimated at 90% of Americans to be immune to the coronavirus. And that will require nearly [...]

It began as an acute illness, sometime about a decade ago. Doctors, who had for centuries belonged to a proud and rewarding profession, were suddenly reporting a series of alarming symptoms: [...]

Not all physician specialties are created equal, at least not in the United States. The relative pecking order of American doctors has, for decades, placed primary care (internal and family [...]

Covid-19 cases hit a six-month high in August with the most daily infections since February. At the time of this survey, the United States was once again reporting more than 100,000 new cases [...]

In this survey, the third of the Fixing Healthcare franchise, we asked listeners: “Which of medicine’s cultural issues are most concerning to you?” Options were based on insights and topics from [...]