by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 7, 2019 | ACA, Atul Gawande, Congressional Budget Office, CVS Health Hubs, D Day, Haven Healthcare, Interoperability, MSSP
7 June 2019 Dear Interested Readers This and That Some weeks it is hard for me to decide what the topic of this letter should be. Longtime readers might remember when I would take on three of four different subjects in the same letter. At the time I was...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 4, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, Economic inequality, Healthcare as a Right, Justice Democrats, Medicare For All, New Consensus, Rihanna Gunn Wright, The Green New Deal
Sometimes it feels to me like there are too many balls in the air. Back when I was practicing medicine, a time that is quickly fading from view as I try to use the rearview mirror of memory, I would categorize my colleagues by the way they approached problems as...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 31, 2019 | Burnout, David Brooks, Featured Post, hyper individualism, Joy in Practice, Marcus Borg, Population Health, The Second Mountain: The Quest For a Moral Life, The Triple Aim
31 May 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Relationalism and the Joy of Practice I imagine that other retirees do what I do and spend a lot of time thinking about what happened during the years of their careers. The goal is to be able to say, “It wasn’t...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 28, 2019 | burnout and professional fulfillment, Colleagues, David Brooks, Healthcare Transformation, hyper individualism, relationalism, Robert Greenleaf, servant leadership, The Second Mountain: The Quest For a Moral Life
One big benefit of being a part of “community” is to be the recipient of the concern of others when something does not go as expected. I know that many faithful readers were scratching their heads wondering what might have happened when by 3:30 last Friday they had...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 24, 2019 | Baumel’s “cost disease”, Competition, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Innovation, Staffing issues in rural healthcare, Stein's Law, The Massachusetts Health Policy Commission, The Triple Aim
24 May 2019 Dear Interested Readers, The Cost of Care, Workforce Shortages and the Need For Innovation The title of the Strategy Healthcare post earlier this week, “Maybe We Should Look For More Healthcare Professionals at Dunkin Donuts” may have sounded...