by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 2, 2023 | Chat GPT, Equity, Featured Post, French Healthcare, Healthcare equity, Politics and Healthcare, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, Universal Access
June 2, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité “Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité” is the motto of France. It speaks to the high ideals of a country that is trying to improve the social determinants of health for everyone. The motto was...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 5, 2023 | ACA, amoral realism, burnout and professional fulfillment, Christian Nationalism, compassion fatigue, David Brooks, diseases of despair, Equity, Featured Post, Healthcare equity, Healthcare in Rural America, Social Determinants of Health, The Great Stone Face, The Soul, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
May 5, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Medicine and the Struggle For the Soul of America One of the members of my Monday morning book group is a woman who is a retired minister and hospital chaplain whose oldest daughter is a physician’s assistant...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 14, 2023 | ACA, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Dr. Daniel Dawes, Dr. Eric Reinhardt, Equity, Featured Post, Global Warming, Gun Violence, healthcare disparities, Healthcare equity, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, Polarization in America, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Supreme Court and Healthcare
April 14, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Examining The Political Determinants of Health Last fall, an Interested Reader who lives in Florida sent me an article by Dr. Eric Reinhardt entitled “Medicine for the People: As more and more doctors awaken to the...
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...
