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Monthly Musings Archive
December 2024 What possible healthcare wins await in 2025?
November 2024 How can AI defeat both chronic disease and burnout?
October 2024 Is the era of healthcare consumerism (finally) here?
September 2024 Can AI cure what’s ailing American healthcare?
August 2024 Medicare’s illogical physician payments: fixable?
July 2024 Are medical schools keeping up with AI?
June 2024 Will this human-like AI tool transform U.S. healthcare?
May 2024 Who (or what) is to blame when AI harms a patient?
April 2024 Will “ChatGPT, MD” empower doctors and patients?
March 2024 What will ChatGPT’s new “memory” mean for medicine?
February 2024 Where has the love for medicine gone?
January 2024 Which healthcare battles will take centerstage in 2024?
December 2023 How can artificial intelligence reduce clinician burnout?
November 2023 Has ‘shrinkflation’ hit healthcare, too?
October 2023 The AI-empowered patient is coming: Are we ready?
September 2023 Can we heal U.S. healthcare in five years?
August 2023 Who will win the value-based care battle?
July 2023 What do the best healthcare leaders have in common?
June 2023 Best summer reading for healthcare professionals?
May 2023 Will our nation make time to mourn 1.1 million Covid-19 deaths?
April 2023 Where are the healthcare regulators?
March 2023 What is the promise (and peril) of AI-enabled healthcare?
February 2023 Will ChatGPT change medical practice?
January 2023 How did healthcare become a “conglomerate of monopolies”?
December 2022 What makes life worth living?
November 2022 What is the “anatomy of healthcare leadership”?
October 2022 Who are the middlemen of medicine?
September 2022 Can Amazon disrupt and dominate healthcare?
August 2022 What healthcare threat is worse than Covid-19?
July 2022 What happens when SCOTUS Justices ignore science?
June 2022 What more could doctors possibly do?
May 2022 Is the telehealth era only just beginning?
April 2022 Are doctors trained to be rulebreakers or rule followers?
March 2022 Will Siri and Alexa become a “first line of defense” in medical practice?
February 2022 How can you tell a brilliant rule breaker from a fool or a quack in medicine?
January 2022 Which “rules” in healthcare deserve to be broken?
December 2021 What will year three of Covid-19 bring?
November 2021 Is Covid-19 here to stay?
October 2021 What frightens patients the most?
September 2021 How do we reason with people who reject science?
August 2021 What is the CDC failing to tell us about its new mask guidance?
July 2021 Is any organization capable of transforming American healthcare?
June 2021 What are the important rules of medicine that doctors don’t learn in medical school?
May 2021 What is the 150-year-old mistake that today’s doctors still make?
April 2021 What inspired the upcoming book “Uncaring: How the Culture of Medicine Kills Doctors & Patients”?
March 2021 How does the culture of medicine impact doctors and patients?
February 2021 Can technology cure racism in medicine?
January 2021 Is there a light at the end of the Covid-19 tunnel?
