Creating a new “whole person” healthcare system
“Between April 2010 and March 2011, about 200 people across the state who were so mentally ill they posed a…
Category: Innovation - Part 3
Healthcare and revolution – Who’s afraid of Cuba?
I’m tired of hearing about the next new revolutionary drug that’s going to change the face of medicine. I’m tired…
Why we need to Occupy Healthcare now
The CEO of WellPoint, the second largest health insurer in the US explained why so eloquently in a quote from…
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…
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…
The fatal flaw in American healthcare
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results.” In discussions of the healthcare system…