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Why social determinants of health matter, and how to take action
(Cross-posted in a slightly modified form at the Life in Underserved Medicine blog) Recently, my friend Carmen Gonzalez wrote a…
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Land of the free, home of healthcare inequality
Every report of late confirms what we already know about health disparities: they are growing worse. A cursory view of…
What does it mean to be a healthcare revolutionary?
Recently at the Planetree Annual Conference Planetree’s President Susan Frampton defined attendees as revolutionaries. It was a gathering of more…
Do we operate under the assumption that help is not on the way?
Changing healthcare must be a highly complicated process or else it would have likely been changed by now. Right? Maybe…
Healthcare in America: All safety nets and no trapeze
“Some men look at things the way they are and ask why? I dream of things that are not and…
Welcome to the world of workaround
Healthcare is full of examples where clinicians on the ground try to do good quality care, but inevitably are faced…