by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 1, 2024 | A story from my life, ACA, Donald Trump, Featured Post, James Carville, Kamala Harris, Nate Silver, Project 2025, Reproductive Rights, Robert F. Kennedy, Social Determinants of Health, Speaker Mike Johnson, The Triple Aim
November 1, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, Can You Survive Five More Anxious Days? There are times when it seems that time stands still. The last month has crept along for me. It feels like it has been a decade since Joe Biden’s disastrous debate with...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 24, 2023 | Black History Month, COVID uncertainty, Economic inequality, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Global Warming, healthcare disparities, Healthcare equity, Jimmy Carter, Joe Biden's coordination of the west's response to Putin's invasion of Ukraine, Martin Luther King Jr, Poverty and healthcare, President Volodymyr Zelensky’, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, VUCA
February 24, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, A Potpourri Of Anniversaries and Observations I apologize for making a self-congratulatory statement, but anniversaries are meaningful. This is the fifteenth anniversary of these Friday letters. There has been...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 29, 2022 | Crossing the Quality Chasm, Enlightenment Now, Evidence Based Medicine, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare equity, Inequality in Healthcare, Liberal Values, modernism, political polarization, postmodernism, Progressive Values, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, The Triple Aim, VUCA
April 29, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Is Healthcare Enlightened Now or Suffering From Postmodern Cynicism and Burnout? About five years ago, I was delighted to get the good news from Stephen Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard, that the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 8, 2022 | ACA, Build Back Better, Choosing Wisely, COVID, Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal, Dr. Elizabeth Rourke, Emerging from the pandemic, Featured Post, Joe Manchin, Low Value Care, Medicaid post COVID, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, Tom Friedman
April 8, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, What We Don’t Recognize or Refuse to Manage Plus What We Did Not Learn or Have Conveniently Forgotten May Be Our Undoing Flummoxed: flum·moxed /ˈfləməkst/ adjective adjective: flummoxed bewildered or perplexed.:...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 4, 2022 | a personal testimony, COVID uncertainty, Dr. George Vaillant, Dr. Paul Batalden, E. Stanley Jones, Equity, Featured Post, Health in America, Inequality in Healthcare, Mark Twain's wisdom, Martin Luther King Jr, Medical Quality, Rainer Maria Rilke, The Triple Aim, VUCA, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
February 4, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Maintaining Perspective While Living with Uncertainty Most Monday mornings at 9 AM I click on a Zoom link and join a conversation with five of my friends. We are all “mostly retired.” One participant is a...
