by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 27, 2021 | antiracism, Biases, Equity, Featured Post, Harvard Medical School, healthcare disparities, Healthcare equity, Ibram X. Kendi, Inequality in Healthcare, intersectionality, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health, structural racism in medicine, The American Families Act, W. E. B. Du Bois
August 27, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Structural Racism In Medicine On Monday I found the August 26 edition of The New England Journal in my mail. As usual, I read the table of contents while standing in the post office in front of my mailbox....
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 20, 2021 | a personal testimony, antiracism, burnout and professional fulfillment, Computers In Healthcare, connectedness, Continuous Improvement, COVID, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Culture, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Healthcare equity, Lean, RVUs, Skepticism about the COVID-19 Vaccine
August 20, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Introspection, Reflection, and Anticipation. You Think and Feel Better Outdoors It’s been a difficult week for a lot of people. Fires continue to burn over large areas of the West even as we have become...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 6, 2021 | antiracism, Climate Crisis, Critical Race Theory, Economic inequality, Featured Post, healthcare disparitiies, Heather McGhee, Ibram X.Kendi, Inequality in Healthcare, Poverty, Racism in America, racist policy v. racism, The Triple Aim
August 6, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Why I Have Been Writing About Race, Inequality, and Climate Change As I look back over the last thirteen years that I have been writing these Friday letters to you I realize that there has been quite a...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 30, 2021 | 2022 midterm elections, anti-vaxxers, coronavirus, Emerging from the pandemic, Featured Post, House hearings on the January 6 attack on the Capital., Improving the health of the poor, Inequality, Non Zero, Politics and Healthcare, Republican efforts to limit voting rights, Skepticism about the COVID-19 Vaccine, The Attack on the Capitol, the filibuster, Universal Access
July 30, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Is “Normal” A Concept That Is Over? This summer has been a very strange season with some very violent weather. Some days feel eerily spooky with a dangerous heavy haze from the West Coast fires hanging over...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 23, 2021 | anti-racism, anti-vaxxers, Black Lives Matter, Climate Crisis, culture wars, Economic inequality, Equity, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Global Warming, healthcare disparities, How To Anti-Racist, Ibram X.Kendi, Inequality in Healthcare, Life Expectancy, Racism in America, racist policy v. racism, Social Determinants of Health, Systemic Racism
July 23, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Can We Use The Desire To Be Anti-Racist To Improve Healthcare? Even if you are only a casual reader of these notes you know that I am a big fan of many of the columnists who write opinion pieces in The New...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 16, 2021 | 2022 midterm elections, ACA, culture wars, Economic inequality, Equity, Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Inequality in Healthcare, Medicare For All, Politics and Healthcare, Racial Inequality, Republican efforts to limit voting rights, Social Determinants of Health, the filibuster
July 16, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Are Voting Rights Critical To Improving The Social Determinants Of Health? These are tense times for me. I wish that I could just turn off the television, cancel all my newspaper and magazine subscriptions,...
