Budd's Blog

Monday, October 19, 2026

On Being Almost 85

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   On Being 85 I joke that it’s a misprint, that I’m really 58. Ojala! Would that it were so. I feel the same as always, ...
Saturday, October 17, 2026

How Much Should Patients Pay For Health Care?

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Patient Financial Considerations and Humanistic Medicine Should a patient worry about getting care because of financial implication...
Tuesday, September 29, 2026

Paying For Health Care And Humanistic Medicine

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    If Humanistic Medicine (HM) is showing care and concern for the individual patient, certainly the way we pay for ...
Sunday, September 13, 2026

Connie

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   I have to admit it, I have always liked blonds. When I was in high school and expressed admiration for Diana Crocheron – blo...
Friday, August 28, 2026

Grandparents Die

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   When I was in college I first experienced my grandparent dying. I wasn’t there at home, I was in Boston and they were back home...
Sunday, July 19, 2026

The Odyssey - A Triumph

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   Thanks to my friend Bob Liss, a Columbia alum, I got to watch the Odyssey Friday night on his dime at a private showing for Colu...
Friday, July 17, 2026

A Fine Day Of Shopping

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    Yesterday was a fine day. The fog didn't come in so much, but it was overcast, and strangely warm and very strangely ...
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A Berkeley resident for 46 years, I went to Lower Merion High in the Philadelphia suburbs,then Harvard College (history, Leverett House), Harvard Medical School, and did my pediatrics training at the University of California San Francisco. I also earned a Masters' Degree at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley, where I am now on the Advisory Board. I was a Fed in Washington with the U.S. Public Health Service in 1968-70, and 1973-4. As a member of the USPHS I studied at the Stockholm School of Economics for a year, and at Yale. Later on I was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at UCSF doing health policy analysis, published a book on Migrant Health Policy and many articles in publications such as the New England Journal of Medicine and the AMA Journal, and taught some. I practiced pediatrics from 1979 to 2012. I was President and owner of Bayside Medical Group, the largest privately held primary care medical groups in the Bay Area, until I sold it to Stanford in 2012. I am married and have three children and two step-children, 3 granddaughters and a grandson. While our permanent residence is Berkeley, we live in Maui part-time.
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