by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 27, 2020 | A Promised Land By Barack Obama, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Black Lives Matter, burnout and professional fulfillment, Crossing the Quality Chasm, David Brooks, Dean Robert Ebert, diseases of despair, Don Berwick, Empathy, Featured Post, Francis Peabody and "The Care of the Patient", healthcare for the rural and urban poor, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden and the Future, Polarization in America, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Six Domains of Quality, the plight of "red state" rural Americans, The Triple Aim
November 27, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Where Do We Begin The Work? During this last week I have been listening to Barack Obama read his book, A Promise Land, on my afternoon walks. It has been an incredible experience. I am delighted that the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 29, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, Adaptive Change, Elizabeth Warren's Medicare for All Plan, Featured Post, healthcare for the rural and urban poor, Healthcare Quality, Medicare For All, Medicare For All Who Want It, Single payer, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim
29 November 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Have You Heard Enough In The Democratic Debates About Healthcare? It’s been a little more than a week since most of the Democratic contenders for the nomination for president gathered in Atlanta for their...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 12, 2019 | Hawaii's Doctor Shortage, healthcare for the rural and urban poor, Primary Care Challenges, Social Determinants of Health, The Challenges to Be Met If We to Have Universal Coverage, The Triple Aim, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
Whenever I travel, I like to look around to assess what it might be like to give care or receive care in the places that I visit. As I write this post, I am flying home from eleven days in Hawaii, where unlike most of the tourists, I was checking out where...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 14, 2019 | Dean Robert Ebert, Economic inequality, healthcare for the rural and urban poor, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health
If you are a close reader of these notes, you’ve probably figured out that my career was as a physician first and then secondarily as a healthcare administrator who was fascinated by the many facets of healthcare management and policy. Put into the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 7, 2018 | America's dependence on foreign medical graduates, burnout and professional fulfillment, George H. W. Bush, healthcare for the rural and urban poor, Medicaid work requirements, rural healthcare
7 December 2018 Dear Interested Readers, A Potpourri of Feelings and Observations Some weeks it is beyond my ability to finally decide on one subject for these notes. It occurs to me that most weeks this letter to you does not live up to its billing as “musings;”...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 20, 2018 | Economic inequality, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, healthcare for the rural and urban poor, Improving the health of the poor, Inequality in Healthcare, Michelle Obama, Population Health Management, Poverty and healthcare, The Triple Aim
Much has been written in recent years about medicine and the physician…A cursory survey of what has been written…permits the conclusion that medical science comes off rather well and the doctor’s image not so well. One gains the impression that doctors as...