by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 29, 2024 | "Joy in Medicine?", A story from my life, Burnout, Eve Shapiro, Featured Post, Moral Injury, Moral sensibilities in healthcare, rural healthcare, Staffing issues in rural healthcare, The Triple Aim, Travel Nurses, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
March 29, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, Reflections On Nursing This week’s letter is shorter even than last week’s letter. I am making progress, but sitting in a comfortable position for the time required to do work is a challenge. I have appreciated the...
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 | Nov 13, 2020 | "Joy in Medicine?", Balint Groups, Burnout, burnout and professional fulfillment, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Robert Coles and the "Call of Service", Essential Workers, Eve Shapiro, Featured Post, Francis Peabody and "The Care of the Patient", Joe Biden, President Trump, professional fulfillment, The 2020 election
November 13, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, An Introduction To A Remarkable Book I have been waiting for this moment for a long time. Two things that I have anticipated have happened simultaneously. First, the election is sort of behind us. If...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 19, 2020 | A personal history of social change, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Eve Shapiro, Featured Post, General Mark Milley, ignoring prudence while reopening the economy, John Bolton's assertions, Juneteenth, Justin Locke, President Trump, public Demonstrations Against Racism and Police Brutality, Racism in America, Reopening the economy, The 2020 elections, The Triple Aim
June 19, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Is “Living On Tulsa Time” Appropriate For These Times? Donald Ray Williams is gone now, but he is in the Country Music Hall of Fame. Williams sang many hit songs, but one in particular, “Tulsa Time,” written...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 27, 2019 | Biases in diagnostic thinking, Burnout, Computers In Healthcare, Critical thinking, Daniel Kahneman, Eve Shapiro, Evidence Based Medicine, Healthcare Transformation, Six Domains of Quality, The Triple Aim
Is it just a small world where connections are closer than any of us imagine? Could it be that there are forces that we don’t yet understand that create connections? Perhaps there is nothing behind connections other than random chance. All of those questions...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 12, 2019 | burnout and professional fulfillment, Computers In Healthcare, Eve Shapiro, fear in the medical workplace, Joy in Practice, Moral Injury, workforce issues
12 July 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Flipping the Conversation From Burnout to Joy Almost two years ago I reviewed The Patient Centered Value System: Transforming Healthcare Through Co-Design by Anthony M. DiGioia and Eve Shapiro. Then a little over a...
