by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 8, 2023 | A personal history, A story from my life, Burnout, Career development, Climate Crisis, emergency room work, Featured Post, Global Warming, Kim Stanley Robinson, lethal wet bulb temps, Lowell General Hospital, Medical Professionalism, professional fulfillment
September 8, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Moving On With My Story In retrospect, internships are a transition from mostly watching as a medical student to progressive hands-on doing. The residency years were a surprise to me because I had to back away...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 21, 2023 | a personal testimony, Climate Crisis, David Brooks, Featured Post, Frederick Buechner, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, Kim Stanley Robinson, Life Expectancy in America, Listening to Your Life, Social Determinants of Health, The Book of Charlie, The theory of everything
July 21, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Let Go and Hang On If You Can I recently passed my 78th birthday. Because of many factors like the pandemic, the fentanyl epidemic, increased gun violence, and probably somewhat due to increasing difficulty with...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 14, 2023 | "Joy in Medicine?", American Medical Association, burnout and professional fulfillment, Chat GPT, Climate Crisis, Dr. Clifford Marks, Dr. David Samson, Dr. Vivek Murthy, Featured Post, Intrinsic and Extrinsic Sources of Motivation, Loneliness, Politics and Healthcare, postmodernism, Professional Satisfaction
July 14, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation as Factors in The Joy of Practice When I am walking or exercising, I enjoy listening to a variety of podcasts. Since I spend around two hours a day walking or riding an indoor or...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 29, 2022 | A story from my life, Activism in Healthcare, Actor-Network, Climate Crisis, Conservative Values, Continuous Improvement, David Brooks, Don Berwick, Economic inequality, Equity, Featured Post, Global Warming, Social Determinants of Health, the power of stories, The Triple Aim
July 29, 2022 Dear Interested Reader, Do We Have The Will and Mindset To Improve Our World? My Dad was a theologian who became a minister to earn a living. His sermons were built on his conservative theology and were full of stories. In his sermons, he...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 15, 2022 | ACO, Biases, Climate Crisis, COVID uncertainty, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Culture, Dualism, Economic inequality, Featured Post, healthcare disparities, Healthcare equity, Implicit Bias, Inequality in Healthcare, Pioneer ACO, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, REACH ACO, Richard Rohr, structural racism in medicine, The impact of a conservative majority on the Supreme Court, The threat to women's reproductive rights, The Triple Aim, Tom Friedman
July 15, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Thoughts on Dualism, The “War of Attrition” in Ukraine, Inequality In Value-Based Reimbursement, and Inherent Biases in Medicine. From time to time when I am thinking about all the human misery in the world that is...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 28, 2022 | A story from my life, Climate Crisis, Collective Action Problems, Culture, D Day, David Brooks, Don't Look Up, Featured Post, healthcare disparities, narcissism, Social Determinants of Health, Wicked Problems
January 28, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Note to readers: A friend and interested reader once told me that I was a better memoirist than an essayist. This week I am taking that observation to heart. As you read the first section of this week’s offering, you...
