by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 8, 2025 | 2026 mid term elections, America's dependence on foreign medical graduates, Burnout, concierge care, CVS, David Brooks, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Dr. Ashish Jha, Dr. Danielle Ofri, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Independent practice of mid-level clinicians, MAGA, Martin Luther King Jr, MassGeneral Brigham, Medicaid, Moral Injury, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Politics and Healthcare, Professor Heather Cox Richardson, Project 2025, Robert Kennedy Jr., Texas attempt to gerrymander for House control, The Voting Rights Act of 1965
August 8, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, We Are Struggling And It Is Likely To Get Worse Before Getting Better This week, there are some significant anniversaries. It has been 80 years since we dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing more...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 18, 2025 | America's defective social safety net, America's dependence on foreign medical graduates, Donald Trump, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare in Rural America, MAGA, Medicaid, narcissistic sociopath, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Politics and Healthcare, Republican enablers, SNAP, Social Determinants of Health, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
July 18, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, The Coming Healthcare Crisis in the Aftermath of the One Big Beautiful Bill, and Other Concerns I suspect that it is very likely that long after Donald Trump shuffles off this mortal coil, historians will be debating...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 30, 2025 | America's dependence on foreign medical graduates, ChatGPT, Diversity Equity Inclusion, DOGE, Featured Post, First Amendment implications for medical practice, Harvard "Strike" 1969, Make America Healthy Again, Making America Great Again, Paul Krugman, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, Trump's attempts to extort universities
May 30, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Education, Research, Academic Freedom, and the Social Determinants of Health Of all the things our president has done, which are very difficult to understand, nothing has seemed more counterproductive to me than his...
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 | Aug 4, 2023 | A story from my life, ACA, America's dependence on foreign medical graduates, Bernie Sanders, Dean Robert Ebert, doctor shortage, Featured Post, Healthcare in Rural America, Moral Injury, Nursing Shortages, patient centered care, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, Staffing issues in rural healthcare
August 4, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, The Story Continues If you have read my last two letters, you know that those letters were autobiographical. I have never resisted tossing events from my life into these notes if my personal story illustrated a...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 7, 2018 | America's dependence on foreign medical graduates, burnout and professional fulfillment, George H. W. Bush, healthcare for the rural and urban poor, Medicaid work requirements, rural healthcare
7 December 2018 Dear Interested Readers, A Potpourri of Feelings and Observations Some weeks it is beyond my ability to finally decide on one subject for these notes. It occurs to me that most weeks this letter to you does not live up to its billing as “musings;”...