by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 24, 2023 | Black History Month, COVID uncertainty, Economic inequality, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Global Warming, healthcare disparities, Healthcare equity, Jimmy Carter, Joe Biden's coordination of the west's response to Putin's invasion of Ukraine, Martin Luther King Jr, Poverty and healthcare, President Volodymyr Zelensky’, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, VUCA
February 24, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, A Potpourri Of Anniversaries and Observations I apologize for making a self-congratulatory statement, but anniversaries are meaningful. This is the fifteenth anniversary of these Friday letters. There has been...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 30, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, a pink ripple, Biden's Use of Executive Orders, Build Back Better, Children in poverty, COVID uncertainty, Democracy on the Ballot, Economic inequality, Family Health Project, Featured Post, Global Warming, Gun Violence, healthcare disparities, Healthcare equity, Hearings of House Committee on January 6, Illiberalism, Inflation, Joe Knowles, Politics and Healthcare, Poverty and healthcare, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, Roe v. Wade is overturned, Social Determinants of Health, The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, Trump's legacy court, Universal Basic Income
December 30, 2022 Dear Interested Reader, Looking Back, Looking Forward Janus, the two-faced Roman god, is the god of doorways and beginnings and endings. He also presides over the beginning and end of wars, making him the god of war and peace. Given...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 16, 2022 | a personal testimony, Burnout, compassion fatigue, Don Berwick, Dr. Anthony DiGioia, Eric Reinhardt, Featured Post, Healthcare equity, Inequality in Healthcare, Joy in Practice, patient centered care, The Patient Centered Value System, The Triple Aim
December 16, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Why Are You In Healthcare? The question in this title assumes that you are a healthcare provider or work in healthcare. I know for a fact that many of the readers of these notes do not work in any aspect of...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 9, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, Build Back Better, culture wars, Don Berwick, Dr. Eric Reinhardt, Dr. Paul Farmer, Empathy, Featured Post, healthcare disparities, Healthcare equity, Illiberalism, Improving the health of the poor, Inequality in Healthcare, political determinants of health, Senator Joe Manchin, Senator Kyrsten Sinema, Social Determinants of Health
December 9, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Political Determinants of Health The 2022 election season is over! At least we thought it was over before Kyrsten Sinema announced that she was leaving the Democratic Party to become an Independent. It does seem...
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 | Oct 28, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, A story from my life, disinformation, Equity, Featured Post, Garrison Keillor, Health in America, Healthcare equity, Hope, Misinformation, Politics and Healthcare, Republican reluctance to accept the results of the election., Social Determinants of Health
October 28, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, The Tension Is Building The 2022 midterm elections are just eleven days from now. On the one hand, I am sick and tired of the inflammatory political ads that are laced with lies or exaggerations coming from both...
