by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 17, 2025 | A personal history, AI in healthcare, Burnout, Clay Christensen, Computers In Healthcare, Disruptive Innovation, Dr. Octo Barnett, Epic, Featured Post, Harvard Community Health Plan, Healthcare equity, Mass General Brigham, No Kings protest, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Practice Improvement, Primary Care, The Triple Aim, workforce issues
October 17, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Is AI the Answer? I wonder if I attend more Zoom meetings than the average eighty-year-old. There are usually at least two and sometimes more Zoom meetings a week on my schedule. My Zoom meetings save me a lot of...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 20, 2024 | A personal history, burnout and professional fulfillment, Charles Handy, Creative Destruction, discontinuous change, Disruptive Innovation, Featured Post, healthcare under Trump, Lean, Moral Injury, Moral sensibilities in healthcare, The Triple Aim
December 20, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, Advice From A Recently Departed Compassionate Guru Last Sunday, I was enjoying a slow day. I was sitting by the fireplace in my living room, which you can see in today’s header when I received a text from Marci...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 3, 2024 | Christian Nationalism, CommonHealth, Continuous Improvement, Creative Destruction, Depression, Disruptive Innovation, Dr. Paul Batalden, Dr. Robert Ebert, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Innovation in Healthcare, Martha Bebinger, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
May 3, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, Improving Healthcare Will Require Courage Protestant ministers of my father’s era would frequently focus their sermons on the promise of John 3:16. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 15, 2023 | A personal history, ACA, Atrius Health, Carol Emmott, Charlie Baker, Clay Christensen, Continuous Improvement, Creative Destruction, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Disruptive Innovation, Dr. Robert Ebert, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Joseph Schumpeter, Ken Paulus, Moral Injury, Social Determinants of Health, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim, utopias
December 15, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Utopian Ideas Versus The Status Quo In Healthcare Less than twenty miles north up Interstate 89 from my home is the Enfield Shaker Museum. I have visited the enclave by Lake Mascoma with its magnificent main...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 30, 2020 | ACA, Angus Deaton and Anne Case, David Brooks, Disruptive Innovation, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, E.J. Dione, Economic inequality, Empathy, Equity, Featured Post, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Jennifer Rubin, Paul Krugman, Progressive Values, Public Health, The 2020 elections, Tom Friedman
October 30, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, It’s About Worthiness For Office, And Much More I am so happy that election day is almost here. I have been averaging over fifty political ads a day in my email. Political ads fill all of the air time on...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 1, 2019 | Amazon, Atul Gawande, CVS Health Hubs, Disruptive Innovation, Haven Healthcare, Primary Care, Walgreens, Walmart
1 November 2019 Dear Interested Readers, What’s Up at Walmart, Walgreens, CVS, and Amazon? I was ten years old in 1955 when Volkswagen began marketing its cute “bugs” in America. It was probably the summer of 1956 before I saw my first “VW Beetle.” It...
