by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 9, 2025 | David Brooks, DOGE, Dr. Atul Gawande, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, MAGA, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Trump's inept administration
May 9, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, There Are Increasing Challenges to Practice and Medical Research Until the 21st of January, the challenge to medical practice and research was how to make faster progress. The last eighty years have been a journey of...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 2, 2025 | ChatGPT, Dartmouth Health, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Healthcare in Rural America, MAGA, medical care in small-town America, New London Hospital, Obstetrical Care in New Hampshire, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The future of healthcare under Trump, the plight of "red state" rural Americans, Trump's first 100 days in office, Trump's inept administration, Value Based Reimbursement
May 2, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, The First 100 Days of a Bad Dream I apologize for the excessive attention I have given to the blatant dangers ahead inherent in our reckless president’s personality disorder and destructive ambitions. His...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 25, 2025 | David Brooks, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Dunning-Kruger effect, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Illiberalism, Politics and Healthcare, Professor Steven Hahn, Robert Kennedy Jr., Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Thomas Friedman, Trump's Cabinet Appointments, Trump's Easter post, Trump's tariffs
April 25, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, One Hundred Days of Damage to the Nation and the Future of Its Health In his column yesterday, Thomas Friedman quoted David Brooks. Brooks has said that Donald Trump is the wrong answer to the right question. Trump...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 18, 2025 | 2026 mid term elections, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Dr. Alan Garber, Dr. Steven Schroeder, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, political determinants of health, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, Structural Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Thomas Friedman, Trump's attempts to extort universities, Trump's first 88 days
April 18, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Everything Is Connected, Uncertain, and Likely to Get Worse The last thirty years have convinced me that healthcare, political issues, controversial social issues, and economics are connected in ways that can’t be...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 11, 2025 | amyloidosis, Dartmouth Health, David Brooks, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Dr. Joseph Betancourt, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Health and Human Services, Politics and Healthcare, Republican enablers, Social Determinants of Health, The Commonwealth Fund, Trump's narcissism, Trump's tariffs
April 11, 2025 Dear Interested Readers. Warning! This has been such a turbulent week for the president, the country, economies of every country in the world, and healthcare here in America that I have needed to do three rewrites. There may be a few...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 4, 2025 | Featured Post, food banks, Liberation Day, Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, Republican enablers, Robert Kennedy Jr., SNAP, Social Determinants of Health, Trump's tariffs
April 4, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Liberation Day? I did not have the stomach to watch President Trump’s pronouncement of his tariff determinations during a gathering of his sycophants in a Rose Garden ceremony late Wednesday afternoon. My guess is...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 28, 2025 | Diversity Equity Inclusion, Featured Post, Health and Human Services, Healthcare equity, J.D. Vance, Jeff Goldberg, Life Expectancy in America, Medicaid, Medicare, Pete Hegseth, Political "norms", Project 2025, Robert Kennedy Jr., Social Determinants of Health, The future of healthcare under Trump, Trump's attempts to expand the presidency
March 28, 2025 Dear Interesed Readers, Weird, Confusing, and Ultimately Very Problematic “You can’t make this stuff up” is one of the most overused and tired clichés in our language, but it has popped into my mind almost every day during the first two...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 21, 2025 | Chat GPT, Constitutional Crisis, Diversity Equity Inclusion, DOGE, Featured Post, Implicit Bias, MAGA, Maggie Haberman, Moral sensibilities in healthcare, Politics and Healthcare, President Trump, Project 2025, Social Determinants of Health, the equal protection clause, The future of healthcare under Trump, Trump's attempts to expand the presidency
March 21, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, A Constitutional Crisis? And Other Practical And Moral Injuries Most presidents use the “honeymoon” of the first one hundred days of a new term to get much of their campaign agenda translated into laws that might...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 14, 2025 | administrative harm, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Burnout, Charles Handy, ChatGPT, Diversity Equity Inclusion, DOGE, Elon Musk, Featured Post, Federalism, Future of Heathcare, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, MAGA, Quadruple Aim, Social Determinants of Health, Subsidiarity
March 14, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Radical Versus Rational Change Donald Trump roared into office claiming that he had a mandate for radical changes in government structure and policy that his supporters believed would “make America great again.” He...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 7, 2025 | DEI, DOGE, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, healthcare disparities, healthcare under Trump, Jennifer Rubin, MAGA, narcissistic sociopath, Political "norms", Project 2025, right-wing woke, Social Determinants of Health, Trump's lies, Trump's March 4th speech to Congress, Trump’s tariffs
March 7, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Our Healthcare Is Threatened By “Right-wing Woke” I wish I was creative enough to have coined the phrase “right-wing woke,” but the honor belongs to New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. I knew that he had “hit...