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...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 19, 2019 | Burnout, Colleagues, Culture, Featured Post, Harvard Community Health Plan, The Triple Aim
Every now and then I see an obituary or read an article in a journal that can send me back in time more than forty years in my professional life and up to seventy years in the totality of life. There is a big “scrapbook” in my brain where I log a lot of “screen time.”...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 16, 2018 | 2018 Midterm Elections, ACA, Burnout, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Inequality, patient centered care, The Supreme Court and Healthcare, The Triple Aim
16 November 2018 Dear Interested Readers, Things To Ponder I have recently finished reading Jill Lapore’s These Truths: a History of the United States. Lepore finishes the book with a forward looking question: Barack Obama had urged...