by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 8, 2022 | "Caste." Racism, Activism in Healthcare, Biases, Boston Medical Center, COVID, Dean Robert Ebert, Don Berwick, Dr. Edward Freis, Dr. Hermann Blumgart, Dr. Joe Dorsey, Dr. Steven Schroeder, Featured Post, Global Warming, Gun Violence as a Public Health Problem, Harvard Community Health Plan, Healthcare equity, patient centered care, Politics and Healthcare, Population Health, Preventative Care, Public Health, Social Determinants of Health, The impact of a conservative majority on the Supreme Court, The Triple Aim, Zeev Neuwirth
July 8, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Reflections on the Long Journey Toward a Greater Appreciation of the Importance of Public Health and Healthcare Equity I often wonder what is being taught in medical schools these days. My medical school days are more than...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 19, 2021 | "Caste." Racism, 1.9 Trillion Dollar COVID Stimulus Bill, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Gun Violence as a Public Health Problem, Improving the health of the poor, Inequality, Joe Knowles, Non Zero, Poverty and healthcare, Richard Rohr, Social Determinants of Health, The Canadian Experiment With UBI, The Stockton Experiment with UBI, Universal Basic Income
March 19, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, To Discuss The Social Determinants of Health Is To Discuss Poverty The Kaiser Family Foundation published a paper this week that detailed the impact on the social determinants of health of the 1.9 COVID...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 19, 2021 | "Caste." Racism, “The Commonwealth Fund Task Force on Payment and Delivery System Reform:, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Digitaal Health Access, Don Berwick, Dr.Anthony DiGioia, Eve Shapiro, Featured Post, Inequality in Healthcare, patient centered care, Patient Engagement, Racial Inequality, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health, The Care Experience, The Triple Aim
February 19, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, An Anniversary It’s been exactly thirteen years since I wrote my first Friday letter to my colleagues, the staff of Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates. I had been the Interim CEO for a little over a week...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 2, 2021 | "Caste." Racism, Activism in Healthcare, anti-racism, Build Back Better, Economic inequality, Harvard Medical School, Inequality in Healthcare, Life Expectancy, Martin Luther King Jr, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health, The 1619 Project, The Triple Aim
In August 2019, long before we were challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic The New York Times Magazine published “The 1619 Project.” We live in a time where race and the impact of our history of slavery, the era of Jim Crow, and the continuing struggle for social...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 25, 2020 | "Caste." Racism, 2020 Presidential Debates, Angus Deaton and Anne Case, Blunders on the Way to the Pandemic, Covid-19, Featured Post, ignoring prudence while reopening the economy, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Pandemic Management, public Demonstrations Against Racism and Police Brutality, The 2020 election, The de emphasis of public health, Trump's to efforts to name a third Supreme Court justice.
September 25, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Milestones, Grief, Continuing Misery, and Rage I wish that Justice Ginsburg’s death had not coincided with the passing of the milestone of 200,000 deaths in this country from COVID-19 because it has been...
