by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 22, 2024 | A personal history, Access, America's dependence on foreign medical graduates, Atrius Health, Burnout, Dartmouth Health, denials of payments, Dr.Kevin McGuire, Featured Post, Moral Injury, Nursing Shortages, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
March 22, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, The Shortest Friday Letter Ever As directed, my wife and I arrived at 9:15 at the Dartmouth same-day surgical unit last Monday. The process was very smooth. I was given a hospital gown, little booties, and a paper...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 28, 2018 | Access, ACO, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Judge O'Connor's threat to the ACA, The Most Significant Healthcare Issues for 2018
28 December 2018 Dear Interested Readers “Zwischen den Jahren” Is a Good Time For Reflection We have a friend in Germany who lived with us as an au pair more than thirty years ago. She now has her own family and a successful public relations...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 2, 2018 | Access, Benefits of the ACA, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Costs, Health in America, Inequality in Healthcare, Payment Models, Single payer, The Triple Aim
Looking back over 2017 I am moved to say, “You can’t make this stuff up!” That expression is a meme/cliche that entered our culture sometime since the advent of Facebook. It has been used more and more during the evolving chaos of the first year of the Trump...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 26, 2017 | Access, Burnout, Consolidation in healthcare, Innovation, Leadership, Process Improvement, Quadruple Aim, The Triple Aim
The Triple Aim will never be realized without increasing our ability to engage patients in their own care, and nothing is more critical to patient engagement than the access patients have to their care providers. I recently attended the fourth Annual Thought...