Budd's Blog

Friday, January 9, 2026

My Friend David And I Have Gotten Old

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I called my stepdaughter Sara on my way down to the Peninsula to see David. She asked me if I had any feelings, any hesitations about going...
Monday, December 29, 2025

How To Save Primary Care

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Lisa Rosenbaum is a Harvard cardiologist and a wonderful writer for the New England Journal of Medicine. I didn...
Friday, December 26, 2025

Brutally Frank

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  Brutally Frank It would be kind of funny if someone were named Frank, and he named his blog “Brutally Frank,” but I'd g...
Sunday, October 26, 2025

Testing Blogspot

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 I have had terrible trouble with my blogspot!  Then I asked my son to help me. Interesting - sons help fathers - gift or burden?  It's ...
Saturday, September 13, 2025

Open Notes in the Context of Humanistic Medicine

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As readers of Budd's Blog know, I've been very involved in learning about humanistic medicine these last few years. I've learne...
Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Gilles' Story, Madeleine - From The French Novel

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As readers of this blog might know, I am taking lessons in French, and as part of my study I prepare a written work each week. So, what I ...
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

My dream - lost in airport department store

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I have planned a trip, and I will have plenty of time to get to the airport. I am at the airport parking structure, and I have to go round...
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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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