by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 27, 2019 | Biases in diagnostic thinking, Burnout, Computers In Healthcare, Critical thinking, Daniel Kahneman, Eve Shapiro, Evidence Based Medicine, Healthcare Transformation, Six Domains of Quality, The Triple Aim
Is it just a small world where connections are closer than any of us imagine? Could it be that there are forces that we don’t yet understand that create connections? Perhaps there is nothing behind connections other than random chance. All of those questions...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 23, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, ACA, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Brett Kavanaugh, Burnout, Featured Post, History of Healthcare Reform, Quadruple Aim, The Triple Aim
23 August 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Let’s Not Forget The Triple Aim As We Debate The Future of Healthcare I am not really complaining, but I have been waiting for a very long time. Living in expectation on the cusp of a better future is not easy. Let...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 19, 2019 | "If--" by Rudyard Kipling, A personal history of social change, Activism in Healthcare, Burnout, Medical Professionalism, The Triple Aim
19 July 2019 Dear Interested Readers, How Are You Doing in the Midst of The Swirl Around You? Are You Keeping Your Head [On]? For a long time now I have been wondering how you are doing. I know that your days are full of challenges that often arise in the most...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 5, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, Benefits of the ACA, Burnout, Healthcare Transformation, Lean, MACRA, Medicare For All, the difficulties of change, the healthcare debate, The Triple Aim
5 July 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Unpacking the Conversation about Medicare for All with Lean Thinking There has been a plethora of articles this week offering analysis of the Democratic Presidential Primary debates. The Washington Post gave us their...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 18, 2019 | Balint Groups, Burnout, David Brooks, Featured Post, Joy in Practice, Norman Rockwell's The Doctor and the Doll, professional fulfillment, The Triple Aim
My wife volunteers a half day a week at a thrift shop that is run by our local VNA. The aging crowd in our community donates great items for sale either before or after their demise. Some know that their children don’t value what they once thought were the earmarks of...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 11, 2019 | a personal testimony, and Underuse of Care, Burnout, Delivery, Healthcare in 2019, Medical Quality, Practice Improvement, Professional Satisfaction, The Triple Aim
In 1991 William Hurt starred in an interesting movie called “The Doctor.” The plot was simple. A highly skilled and well respected, but egotistical and self centered surgeon gets cancer. You follow him through his discovery of compassion as he contends with his own...