New Orleans Catching up on back issues of the New Yorker from my time off-the-grid, I stumbled onto a great piece by Dr. Atul Gawande on “Big Med.” Believe it or not, he shrewdly argues that huge service industry operations, like the Cheesecake Factory of all places, might just be the model for a different …
Category: Health Care
The Arguable Attraction of Public Health Organizing
Rock Creek Besides fishing, reading, hiking, and sleeping, the other nice thing about vacations out here in the quiet off-the-grid, is that one has that rare, precious and luxurious feeling that you have time to think. Not just to put two plus two together, but to arrange them in patterns, cancel out the highs and …
Louisiana Healthcare Cuts & Rebuilding the Louisiana Democratic Party
Louisiana State Senator and head of the Louisiana Democratic Party, Karen Carter, speaks before the Local 100 United Labor Unions leadership conference that was held on July 21st, 2012 in New Orleans, LA. Here, Senator Carter talks about the impacts of the healthcare cuts across Louisiana and the work that is needed to rebuild the …