Years ago I did a presentation to a health care group on the subject of diversity. It went pretty well except for maybe a 3 minute period where there was a breakdown in belief that highlighted exactly what I was talking about. It wasn’t pretty but it was able to be handled fairly quickly so […]

A short post but not necessarily a short video. Actually, it comes in around 8 minutes, but I felt the topic would carry more weight if I spoke rather than wrote about it. Unfortunately, based on my premise in the video I’m not expecting this one to be seen by all that many people but […]

Health care in America is in trouble. It’s in trouble for many reasons, but I tend to believe it’s all related to money. Although people outside the industry tend to believe that hospitals are making money hand over fist, the reality is that the majority of hospitals in this country are either losing money or […]

By the time you see this post I’ll be on my way out of town to see my mother, grandmother, and my grandmother’s brother. My grandmother is in a nursing home, something I think I’ve talked about before. You know, I’ve been in health care more than 28 years now, and though this isn’t the […]

Within the health care industry, lately there’s been more talk about quality. Most of the talk involves things such as clinical efficiency, getting people out of the hospital faster, and lowering the costs of care. Only on that last one do patients seem to agree. I’ve talked to a lot of them over the years, […]