by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 1, 2023 | A personal history, Carol Emmott, Charlie Baker, Dr. Robin Atlas, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Glenn Hackbarth, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Pilgrim Health Care, Roanne Weisman
December 1, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Something New For You To Check Out If you are reading this letter on a computer, look to the right side of the page and click on “References.” If you are reading the letter on a cell phone, scroll down to the end...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 24, 2023 | A personal history, Cass Sunstein, Dr. Marc Bard, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Healthcare Mergers, Illiberalism, Liberal Values, Liberalism, Medical Professionalism, Moral Injury, Physician Council of HCHP, RVUs, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
November 24, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Some Thoughts Before Continuing My Story I began the slow crawl through the memories from my professional life in the letter that I wrote to you on July 21. Eighteen weeks later I am only up to 1995, and I am...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 17, 2023 | A story from my life, David Brooks, Dr. Harris Berman, Dr. Jennifer Leaning, Dr. Walter Murphy, Featured Post, Frederick Buechner, Glenn Hackbarth, Hamas, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Harvard Vanguard Medical, Healthcare Mergers, Listening to Your Life, Pilgrim Health Care, Pluralism, Point 32 Health, Social Determinants of Health, The conflict between Israel and Hamas, The Triple Aim, Tufts Health Plan
November 17, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Mergers Change Everything The header today is a photo of a piece of commemorative glassware that was presented to each of the participants in the long discussions and negotiations that resulted in the merger of...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 25, 2022 | A story from my life, Cardinal Cushing, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Dr. Joe Dorsey, Dr. Robert Ebert, Featured Post, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Healthcare equity, improving the delivery of care, Richard Rohr, Social Determinants of Health, The Second Mountain: The Quest For a Moral Life
November 25, 202 Dear Interested Readers, In Memoriam J.L.D. Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill! Alfred Lord Tennyson worked for seventeen years to produce his very famous poem “In Memorium A.H.H.” which...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 26, 2021 | "The Doctor" by Sir Luke Fildes, ACA, Continuous Improvement, Equity, Featured Post, Guthrie Clinic, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Harvard Vanguard Medical, healthcare disparities, Healthcare in Rural America, Inequality in Healthcare, Innovation in Healthcare, Joe Biden, Kearsage Regional Ecumenical Ministries, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, Lean, Politics and Healthcare, Practice Improvement, The Triple Aim
November 26, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Thanksgivings For The Opportunities For Service In Troubled Times I hope that by now you have experienced a resolution of any Thanksgiving Day indigestion or mental distress that might have arisen from temporary...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 16, 2021 | Adaptive Change, Build Back Better, Continuous Improvement, Dr. Marshall Wolf, Dr. Robert Ebert, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Harvard Vanguard Medical, Health in America, Healthcare Transformation, Inequality in Healthcare, The Triple Aim, transformational change, Universal Access, Waste in healthcare
April 16, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, How We Get Paid Makes A Difference In What We Do Over the years I have probably used one quote from Dr. Robert Ebert in these notes more than any other idea, quote, or concept from any other source. Even if...
