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...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 31, 2019 | Burnout, David Brooks, Featured Post, hyper individualism, Joy in Practice, Marcus Borg, Population Health, The Second Mountain: The Quest For a Moral Life, The Triple Aim
31 May 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Relationalism and the Joy of Practice I imagine that other retirees do what I do and spend a lot of time thinking about what happened during the years of their careers. The goal is to be able to say, “It wasn’t...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 26, 2019 | Burnout, Featured Post, Happiness, Professional Satisfaction, The Triple Aim
Thomas Jefferson was a master of the memorable phrase. His masterpiece was The Declaration of Independence. The first paragraph is a very powerful introduction to a reason for action, “When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 15, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence (AI), Burnout, Computers In Healthcare, Deep Medicine, Dr. Eric Topol, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Lean
15 March 2019 Dear Interested Readers, An Introduction To Deep Medicine Rapid advances in the information sciences, coupled with the political commitment to broad extensions of health care, promise to bring about basic changes in the structure of...