by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 23, 2021 | anti-racism, anti-vaxxers, Black Lives Matter, Climate Crisis, culture wars, Economic inequality, Equity, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Global Warming, healthcare disparities, How To Anti-Racist, Ibram X.Kendi, Inequality in Healthcare, Life Expectancy, Racism in America, racist policy v. racism, Social Determinants of Health, Systemic Racism
July 23, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Can We Use The Desire To Be Anti-Racist To Improve Healthcare? Even if you are only a casual reader of these notes you know that I am a big fan of many of the columnists who write opinion pieces in The New...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 23, 2021 | Activism in Healthcare, anti-racism, Biases, Black Lives Matter, Children in poverty, Continuous Improvement, Crossing the Quality Chasm, equal justice, Equity, Featured Post, healthcare disparities, Healthcare Transformation, Poverty and healthcare, Racism in America, The 1619 Project, The Triple Aim
April 23, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, The Challenge: Recognize What We Have Been. Ask What We Are Willing To Become It would be a mistake to think that the only important or even most important issue of the last fourteen months was the COVID-19...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 5, 2021 | A Brief History of the Last One Hundred Years Of Healthcare, ACA, American exceptionalism, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Biden's Use of Executive Orders, Black Lives Matter, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Economic inequality, Future of Heathcare, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality in Healthcare, John McCain, political polarization, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Waste in healthcare, Zoonosis
February 5, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, It’s Time To Start Again I am sure that I am not alone in my current strange mix of hope and residual fear. I am feeling much better now that Joe Biden is in the Oval office, but prior traumas are hard to...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 27, 2020 | A Promised Land By Barack Obama, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Black Lives Matter, burnout and professional fulfillment, Crossing the Quality Chasm, David Brooks, Dean Robert Ebert, diseases of despair, Don Berwick, Empathy, Featured Post, Francis Peabody and "The Care of the Patient", healthcare for the rural and urban poor, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden and the Future, Polarization in America, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Six Domains of Quality, the plight of "red state" rural Americans, The Triple Aim
November 27, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Where Do We Begin The Work? During this last week I have been listening to Barack Obama read his book, A Promise Land, on my afternoon walks. It has been an incredible experience. I am delighted that the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 10, 2020 | ACA, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Black Lives Matter, Donald Trump's Reluctance to accept the outcome of the election, Equity, Featured Post, Health in America, Healthcare as a Right, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Polarization in America, The election of Joe Biden, The Triple Aim
Where were you at 11:30 AM last Saturday? I was sitting bleary eyed in front of my television watching John King and Wolf Blitzer on CNN. Outside the weather was glorious, and I knew that there were many “productive” things that I could be doing that...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 23, 2020 | 2020 Presidential Debates, ACA, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Black Lives Matter, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Featured Post, Inequality, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, Pandemic Management, Polarization in America, Poverty and healthcare, pre existing conditions, Social Determinants of Health, the threat of a conservative court to the ACA
October 23, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Finally, The Debates Are Over. What Did We Learn About The Future of Healthcare? What Did We Learn About The Candidates That We Did Not Already Know? My expectations were low. What should your expectations be...
