I have, for the second time in my living memory, seen an attempt at rational reform of health care delivery in the United States. I won’t call it a “system” – dignity that it doesn’t deserve. The last time was in the early 1990’s when I was a junior C… Read full post »

Samuel Johnson correctly identified patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel; he might as well have added religion. I hope that no reader mistakes the remainder of this post as a headlong dive into religiosity; spiritual perhaps, and at a time in my life when I certainly… Read full post »

I must begin this with a confession. I am not a writer, don’t aspire to be a writer, and as you will no doubt come to understand, am not a particularly adept writer. I have come to this at an odd juncture in my life; beset by career ambiguity, a painful… Read full post »