by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 23, 2026 | "sick care" in primary care, A personal history, Access to care, Ambulatory practice, chronic disease management, Dr. Cato Baxter Wiseman, Dr. Lisa Rosenbaum, Featured Post, Harvard Community Health Plan, Healthcare Quality, Primary Care Challenges, Social Determinants of Health, the "good" doctor, the burden of quality metrics on PCPs, The Corporatization of U.S. Health Care, The Triple Aim
January 23, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Searching For the Relationships That Provide Professional Fulfillment My mother had many interests and was an “early adopter.” She had a “Tandy Computer” from Radio Shack in the early eighties before moving on to...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 17, 2025 | "concepts of a plan", Abortion, ACA, Access, American Oligarchs, amyloidosis, Billionaires in Trump's Administration, ChatGPT, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Dr. Joseph Betancourt, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Global Warming, Healthcare equity, Healthcare Quality, healthcare under Trump, insurance denials, MAGA, Martin Luther King Jr, R.F.K., Social Determinants of Health, The Commonwealth Fund, The future of healthcare under Trump, The Triple Aim, Trump's Cabinet Appointments, Willem Lange
January 17, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, It’s a New Year, a New Government, and a Very New Day Coming The New Year is slowly building some momentum. As there is increasing certainty about who will populate the Trump cabinet, we will have more clarity...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 23, 2024 | 2024 Democratic National Convention, A story from my life, Burnout, Featured Post, Governor Tim Walz, Healthcare Quality, Inequality in Healthcare, Kamala Harris, Medical Professionalism, Moral Injury, patient centered care, Professionalism, Six Domains of Quality, The 2024 Presidential Election, Trust in medical practice, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
August 23, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, Have We Lost The Trust Of Our Patients? Everyone complains about healthcare. I know that I do. My access to healthcare is probably better than for most Americans, but I still find that there are barriers to the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 30, 2023 | ACA, COVID, culture wars, diseases of despair, Dobbs v. Jackson, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Featured Post, George Saunders, Governor Ron DeSantis, Gun Violence, Health Care Policy in the Wake of COVID-19, healthcare disparities, Healthcare Outcomes, Healthcare Quality, Inequality in Healthcare, political polarization, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Commonwealth Fund, The threat to women's reproductive rights, Universal Access, woke healthcare
June 30, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Where Does Your State Rank? Every year The Commonwealth Fund ranks the healthcare in each state. This year’s rankings were published last week on June 22 in an article entitled “2023 Scorecard on State Health...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 17, 2021 | Collective Action Problems, COVID, COVID in New Hampshire, David Brooks, Don Berwick, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Global Warming, Gun Violence as a Public Health Problem, healthcare disparities, Healthcare Quality, Hope, Inequality, Leon Kass, Non Zero, Polarization in America, Poverty, Racial Inequality, Social Determinants of Health, The Second Mountain: The Quest For a Moral Life, The Triple Aim, Vaccine hesitancy
December 17, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Collective Action Problems. Healthcare Is Definitely On The List Recently, the weather has been warmer, and I have enjoyed returning to my old routine of walking daily. I don’t know how long it will be possible....
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 13, 2021 | a personal testimony, Activism in Healthcare, Atrius Health, Biden's Transformation, Crossing the Quality Chasm, David Brooks, Dialog Across the Divide, Don Berwick, E.J. Dione, Equity, Ezra Klein, Harvard Vanguard Medical, Healthcare equity, Healthcare Quality, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden's aggressive agenda, Social Determinants of Health, Stein's Law, The Triple Aim, transformational change
The “serious” section of Friday’s post was entitled “Preparing For Transformation.” At the end of the post after talking about the transformation that Joe Biden was trying to lead as we emerge from the pandemic I promised that I would be returning to the...
