Tincture October 16, 2019
Week after week I read with great interest the viewpoints, perspectives, analysis & commentary, blog posts and other dispatches from my healthcare professional peers and colleagues who are seeking to understand and influence the current and future state of both our profession and our systems of care.
With each reading, I am reminded of the published words of my late mentor Dr. Carleton Chapman, a former Dean of Dartmouth Medical School and one-time President of the Commonwealth Fund “…. our present scheme…for medicine is intellectually deficient, wasteful of money and time, and in urgent need of overhaul”.
Because, for all the decades of deep academic, economic, clinical and governmental expertise and intellectual rigor of healthcare subject-matter and policy experts, the...