by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 31, 2021 | 2022 midterm elections, Build Back Better, COVID, COVID uncertainty, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Inequality in Healthcare, Life Expectancy, Omicron variant, Pandemic Management, Personal responses to the challenges of COVID-19, Progressive Values, Senator Joe Manchin, Social Determinants of Health, the difficulties of change, The importance of testing in pandemic management, Vaccine hesitancy, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
December 31, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Reflections On 2021, A Very Unusual And Unpleasant Year, And Hopes For A Better 2022. If you are reading this letter, you have survived a tough year. Well, maybe, there are a few hours before that is certain. On...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 3, 2021 | Authoritarianism, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Crossing the Quality Chasm, David Brooks, Democratic control of the House, Dialog Across the Divide, Economic inequality, Equity, Health in America, healthcare disparities, Healthcare equity, Healthcare Transformation, Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance, Ibram X. Kendi, Inequality in Healthcare, intersectionality, Per Scholas, Polarization in America, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, Wicked Problems
December 3, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, If There Are Four Americas, What Does That Mean For Healthcare? We all are aware of the deep bipartisan divide that stymies attempts to improve access to healthcare and lower its cost for all consumers. The same...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 26, 2021 | "The Doctor" by Sir Luke Fildes, ACA, Continuous Improvement, Equity, Featured Post, Guthrie Clinic, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Harvard Vanguard Medical, healthcare disparities, Healthcare in Rural America, Inequality in Healthcare, Innovation in Healthcare, Joe Biden, Kearsage Regional Ecumenical Ministries, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, Lean, Politics and Healthcare, Practice Improvement, The Triple Aim
November 26, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Thanksgivings For The Opportunities For Service In Troubled Times I hope that by now you have experienced a resolution of any Thanksgiving Day indigestion or mental distress that might have arisen from temporary...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 29, 2021 | Continuous Improvement, COVID, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Culture, diseases of despair, Emerging from the pandemic, Equity, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Global Warming, healthcare disparities, healthcare finance, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden's aggressive agenda, Nicholas Kristof, Public Health, Racial Inequality, Social Determinants of Health, The de emphasis of public health, The Triple Aim, Universal Access
October 29, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, What COVID Has Revealed To Us I have seen several articles that attempt to tell us what COVID has revealed to us about the inequities and inadequacies in our system of care. My guess is that you have also...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 8, 2021 | Critical Race Theory, Dean Robert Ebert, Economic inequality, Featured Post, healthcare disparities, healthcare for the rural and urban poor, Inequality in Healthcare, Matthew Desmond, Population Health Management, Poverty and healthcare, Public Health, Racism in America, racist policy v. racism, Slavery's Capitalism, Social Determinants of Health, The 1619 Project
October 8, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Reflections on Failed Good Intentions And Inequality My fiftieth-anniversary medical school reunion was this past June. COVID turned it into an online event. I understood the necessity, but it was a disappointment...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 1, 2021 | ACA, antiracism, Arlie Russell Hochschild, culture wars, diseases of despair, Dr. Jonathan Metzl, Dying of Whiteness, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Healthcare equity, Ibram X.Kendi, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden's aggressive agenda, Polarization in America, Public Health, racist policy v. racism, Social Determinants of Health, the filibuster, The Triple Aim, Thomas Frank, Universal Access
October 1, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Why Do We Make Choices That Don’t Promote Our Wellbeing? The news is full of the manifestations of our national uncertainties and deep divisions. At this moment Congress is engaged in a great debate about the...
