by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 8, 2025 | 2026 mid term elections, America's dependence on foreign medical graduates, Burnout, concierge care, CVS, David Brooks, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Dr. Ashish Jha, Dr. Danielle Ofri, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Independent practice of mid-level clinicians, MAGA, Martin Luther King Jr, MassGeneral Brigham, Medicaid, Moral Injury, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Politics and Healthcare, Professor Heather Cox Richardson, Project 2025, Robert Kennedy Jr., Texas attempt to gerrymander for House control, The Voting Rights Act of 1965
August 8, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, We Are Struggling And It Is Likely To Get Worse Before Getting Better This week, there are some significant anniversaries. It has been 80 years since we dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing more...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 11, 2025 | Big Beautiful Bill, Burnout, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare in Rural America, Lawrence Summers, Moral Injury, New England Journal of Medicine, no margin no mission, Politics and Healthcare, Sister Irene Kraus, The Corporatization of U.S. Health Care, The future of healthcare under Trump
July 11, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Coming To Grips With A Big Problem My Fourth of July celebration was dimmed a bit by President Trump signing his “One Big Beautiful Bill.” I have learned recently that many of the portions of the bill that will...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 30, 2025 | America's dependence on foreign medical graduates, ChatGPT, Diversity Equity Inclusion, DOGE, Featured Post, First Amendment implications for medical practice, Harvard "Strike" 1969, Make America Healthy Again, Making America Great Again, Paul Krugman, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, Trump's attempts to extort universities
May 30, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Education, Research, Academic Freedom, and the Social Determinants of Health Of all the things our president has done, which are very difficult to understand, nothing has seemed more counterproductive to me than his...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 25, 2025 | David Brooks, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Dunning-Kruger effect, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Illiberalism, Politics and Healthcare, Professor Steven Hahn, Robert Kennedy Jr., Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Thomas Friedman, Trump's Cabinet Appointments, Trump's Easter post, Trump's tariffs
April 25, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, One Hundred Days of Damage to the Nation and the Future of Its Health In his column yesterday, Thomas Friedman quoted David Brooks. Brooks has said that Donald Trump is the wrong answer to the right question. Trump...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 11, 2025 | amyloidosis, Dartmouth Health, David Brooks, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Dr. Joseph Betancourt, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Health and Human Services, Politics and Healthcare, Republican enablers, Social Determinants of Health, The Commonwealth Fund, Trump's narcissism, Trump's tariffs
April 11, 2025 Dear Interested Readers. Warning! This has been such a turbulent week for the president, the country, economies of every country in the world, and healthcare here in America that I have needed to do three rewrites. There may be a few...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 28, 2025 | Diversity Equity Inclusion, Featured Post, Health and Human Services, Healthcare equity, J.D. Vance, Jeff Goldberg, Life Expectancy in America, Medicaid, Medicare, Pete Hegseth, Political "norms", Project 2025, Robert Kennedy Jr., Social Determinants of Health, The future of healthcare under Trump, Trump's attempts to expand the presidency
March 28, 2025 Dear Interesed Readers, Weird, Confusing, and Ultimately Very Problematic “You can’t make this stuff up” is one of the most overused and tired clichés in our language, but it has popped into my mind almost every day during the first two...
