by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 25, 2026 | 2026 midterm elections, A personal history, aging and mortality, amyloidosis, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, misleading campaign ads, my wife's CVA, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Politics and Healthcare, Republican efforts to limit voting rights, Rick Pildes, Sarah Isgur
September 25, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Election Anxieties and Other Issues of Interest It’s less than six weeks until the midterm elections, and I am getting very nervous. The surprise of 2016 was a trauma from which I have never completely...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 18, 2026 | 2026 midterm elections, A personal history, access issues for those with access, Dartmouth Health, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare Quality, Moral Injury, my wife's CVA, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Timeliness as a component of quality, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
September 18, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Unraveling Quality This week, as usual, I avoided watching the Emmy Awards extravaganza on television. I don’t exactly know why I don’t enjoy watching all the self-congratulatory entertainment awards ceremonies...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 11, 2026 | A personal history, access issues for those with access, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Dartmouth Health, Don Berwick, Featured Post, Gloria Steinem, Healthcare in Rural America, my wife's CVA, New London Hospital, patient centered care, Remembering 9/11, Staffing issues in rural healthcare, Timeliness as a component of quality
September 11, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Could It Be 25 Years? And Other Questions and Observations If you were born before 1990, you can probably remember 9/11/2001 with more detail than you can remember the Fourth of July this year. My understanding...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 26, 2026 | 4th of July, A personal history, Atrius Health, Burnout, Capitalism, ChatGPT, Consolidation in healthcare, Corporatization of U.S. Healthcare, Dr. Louise Aronson, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Loren Adler, Mass General Brigham, Moral Injury, New England Journal of Medicine, Partners Health Care, The Triple Aim
June 26, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, When Will Doctors Take A Stand? Exactly a year ago, The New England Journal of Medicine began a remarkable series in its “Perspectives” section entitled The Corporatization of U.S. Health Care. There was a companion...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 12, 2026 | A personal history, Atul Gawande, Dr. Edward M. Hundert, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Harvard Medical School, medical education, Politics and Healthcare, What I learned ar my class reunion, Wildflowers
June 12, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Interesting Changes In Medical Education If you read my letter from last Friday, you know that I was writing from Boston, where my wife and I had gone for my medical school class reunion. Our minds play tricks on...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 1, 2026 | 2026 mid term elections, A personal history, ACA, Benefits of the ACA, Dean Robert Ebert, Dr. Charles Magraw, Dr. Eugene Braunwald, Dr. Joe Dorsey, Dr. Paul Solomon, Featured Post, John Russell, Paul Krugman, Politics and Healthcare, The Commonwealth Fund, The Triple Aim, Universal Access
May 1, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Can We Get To Universal Access To Care Without Big Changes? Much of my free time and energy for the past two weekends has been spent in Maine around the birth of our newest grandson. He arrived at Maine Medical Center...
