by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 23, 2025 | Activism in Healthcare, Burnout, Dr. Alice Chen, Dr. Vivek Murthy, Featured Post, FQHCs, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare equity, healthcare under Trump, hospital closings in rural America, Medicaid, Moral Injury, Senator Bill Cassidy, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
May 23, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, The New England Journal Comes Through As you may have noticed, I sometimes reference New England Journal of Medicine articles. Honestly, I have been disappointed by the relative silence of the Journal about the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 22, 2024 | a personal testimony, ACA, Activism in Healthcare, Anne Applebaum, Chat GPT, Dr. Oz, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Inequality in Healthcare, Politics and Healthcare, Project 2025, Robert Kennedy Jr., Social Determinants of Health, Speaker Mike Johnson, The Triple Aim, Trump's Cabinet Appointments
November 22, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, To Survive the Next Four Years, Think Globally and Act Locally I am tired of reading about the election. I have been both entertained and horrified by President-elect Trump’s announcements of the people that he...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 5, 2024 | 2024 elections, Activism in Healthcare, Equity, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Global Warming, Martin Luther King Jr, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Universal Basic Income, Where Do We Go From Here?
April 5, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, What Dr. King’s Experience Might Suggest About Improving Healthcare April 4, 1968, seems a lifetime ago, and yet I remember it more clearly than most days of the last year. If you had asked me where Dr. King was, I...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 29, 2022 | A story from my life, Activism in Healthcare, Actor-Network, Climate Crisis, Conservative Values, Continuous Improvement, David Brooks, Don Berwick, Economic inequality, Equity, Featured Post, Global Warming, Social Determinants of Health, the power of stories, The Triple Aim
July 29, 2022 Dear Interested Reader, Do We Have The Will and Mindset To Improve Our World? My Dad was a theologian who became a minister to earn a living. His sermons were built on his conservative theology and were full of stories. In his sermons, he...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 8, 2022 | "Caste." Racism, Activism in Healthcare, Biases, Boston Medical Center, COVID, Dean Robert Ebert, Don Berwick, Dr. Edward Freis, Dr. Hermann Blumgart, Dr. Joe Dorsey, Dr. Steven Schroeder, Featured Post, Global Warming, Gun Violence as a Public Health Problem, Harvard Community Health Plan, Healthcare equity, patient centered care, Politics and Healthcare, Population Health, Preventative Care, Public Health, Social Determinants of Health, The impact of a conservative majority on the Supreme Court, The Triple Aim, Zeev Neuwirth
July 8, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Reflections on the Long Journey Toward a Greater Appreciation of the Importance of Public Health and Healthcare Equity I often wonder what is being taught in medical schools these days. My medical school days are more than...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 27, 2021 | 1.9 Trillion Dollar COVID Stimulus Bill, Activism in Healthcare, Children in poverty, Family Health Project, Featured Post, Health in America, healthcare disparities, Improving the health of the poor, Inequality in Healthcare, Invisible Americans: The Tragic Cost of Child Poverty, Joe Knowles, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The American Jobs Act, The Stockton Experiment with UBI, Universal Basic Income
If you ask yourself what are the origins of healthcare disparities your answer would probably be poor access to healthcare, poor access to healthy food, poor education in underserved communities, low wages, inadequate housing, lack of job opportunities, and...
