I. An Honest, Truthful Transition
- T Michael White MD FACP
- Sep 5
- 2 min read
Fixing United States Health Care
Letters to the File
T Michael White MD FACP
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Letters to the File
I. An Honest, Truthful Transition
(more to follow)
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I. An Honest, Truthful Transition
“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
Buddha
The WhiteHouse on the Belleair Bluff
Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Hello Dr. Mike (a letter to the file).
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For the past year, you have been seriously contemplating what may be done to improve health care in these fine United States. Steeping up to honesty and telling yourself the (painful) truth:
Communications with learned citizen thought leaders uniformly support opinion that that United States health care is a non-system that is in serious, ever-worsening disarray;
In discussions, dramatic measures have been identified that can be readily implemented to immediately improve health care;
Having had the privilege of a medical career, you personally feel obligated/compelled to try to make a difference;
With all due respect sir, you do not have the gravitas (the personal, political, professional standing) to command a national audience’s attention in these critical matters; so
Given that your well-meaning, quixotic, efforts are proving to be fruitless, you must (to the relief of family, friends and colleagues), for your own mental and physical well-being, relax and stand down.
Honesty and truth are liberating. As you must, you shall stand down ꟷ but only publicly. Privileged with a career in medicine, you shall not abandon your responsibility to strive to do meaningful work that may make a difference. Therefore, you shall:
Introspectively, regularly write formal, thoughtful letters (like this) to yourself;
Formally assemble/collate them in this file;
Quietly publish them on this website: Fixing United States Health Care --- Letters to the File;
Be pleased if any choose to find the webpage and consider its contents; and
Be doubly pleased to (however unlikely) receive reactions regarding what you have right, wrong and or omitted.
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Respectfully submitted with fondest personal regards,
Dr. Mike
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