by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 6, 2023 | 2022 midterm elections, COVID, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Global Warming, Gun Violence, Health in America, healthcare disparities, Inequality, Inequality in Healthcare, Life Expectancy, patient centered care, Politics and Healthcare, Poverty and healthcare, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, Selection of the Speaker of the House, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Waste in healthcare
January 6, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Thoughts About the New Year Last week I advertised that I was going to review 2022 and then look forward to 2023. It is easy to talk about “what has been” and much more difficult to anticipate “what will be.” At...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 23, 2022 | a personal testimony, A story from my life, Economic inequality, Equity, Featured Post, Healthcare Outcomes, Homelessness and Health, Housing shortages as a social determinant of health, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden's housing initiative, Kearsage Regional Ecumenical Ministries, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, Politics and Healthcare, Poverty and healthcare, President Volodymyr Zelensky’, Social Determinants of Health, thin places, workforce issues
December 23, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Thinking of the Homeless at Christmas In 1943 Bing Crosby recorded “I’ll Be Home For Christmas” and it was a number-one hit on the charts. To listeners in 1943, the song was sung from the perspective of a...
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 | Oct 21, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, Biases, COVID uncertainty, Equity, Hearings of House Committee on January 6, Illiberalism, Inequality in Healthcare, Inflation, MAGA, Maggie Haberman, Politics and Healthcare, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, Social Determinants of Health
October 21, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Don’t Fall For The Con I am hoping that sometime before the year 2045, which will be the year of my one-hundredth birthday, we will have enjoyed great success or at least substantial progress on the three issues...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 14, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, A Promised Land By Barack Obama, Bayard Rustin, culture wars, Diane Gilworth, Economic inequality, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Healthcare equity, Hope, Improving the health of the poor, Inequality in Healthcare, Martin Luther King Jr, political polarization, Poverty, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health, Transformative Politics
October 14, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Looking Back For Guidance Going Forward I am probably like a lot of Democrats who can remember the enthusiasm with which we once embraced heroes like JFK, RFK, Gene McCarthy, and even Jimmy Carter and Bill...