by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 21, 2022 | Build Back Better, COVID, Dialog Across the Divide, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Garrison Keillor, Health and Healthcare, healthcare disparities, Joe Manchin, Martin Luther King Jr, Omicron variant, Polarization in America, Social Determinants of Health, the filibuster, voter rights
January 21, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, A Week That Generated Much Concern Was it not ironic that just four days after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s actual birthday, and two days after this year’s celebration of his life, the Senate slammed the door on...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 11, 2020 | Continuous Improvement, Don Berwick, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Essential Workers, Featured Post, Global Warming, Health and Healthcare, Interdependence, Lewis Thomas, Sister Joan Chittister, Social Determinants of Health, Systemness, The Green New Deal, the president's lies, Zoonosis
In each of the last two posts I have mentioned Paul Batladen’s famous observation about the output of “systems.” Last Tuesday I wrote: The great physician and advocate for continuous improvement, Paul Batalden of Dartmouth, has reminded us frequently...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 24, 2020 | American exceptionalism, Authoritarianism, Blunders on the Way to the Pandemic, Covid-19, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Donald Trump's Reaction to Demonstrations, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Health and Healthcare, ignoring prudence while reopening the economy, Inequality in Healthcare, Jill Lepore, Pandemic Management, Public Health, Social Determinants of Health, Social Distancing, The de emphasis of public health, The World After COVID-19
July 24, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, We Are Not As “Exceptional” As We Thought As a child, I developed a love of American history. My family traveled more extensively east of the Mississippi than to the west, but the east was the home of colonial...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 8, 2019 | Future of Heathcare, Health and Healthcare, Healthcare Transformation, Improving Ambulatory Practice, Medicare For All, Public Option, the difficulties of change, Universal Access
8 February 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Imagine That! Last Sunday the Associate Minister at my church delivered a wonderfully crafted sermon entitled “Imagine.” She was not asking us to daydream about what might happen that evening in Atlanta as the...
