by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 22, 2024 | A personal history, Access, America's dependence on foreign medical graduates, Atrius Health, Burnout, Dartmouth Health, denials of payments, Dr.Kevin McGuire, Featured Post, Moral Injury, Nursing Shortages, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
March 22, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, The Shortest Friday Letter Ever As directed, my wife and I arrived at 9:15 at the Dartmouth same-day surgical unit last Monday. The process was very smooth. I was given a hospital gown, little booties, and a paper...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 4, 2023 | A story from my life, ACA, America's dependence on foreign medical graduates, Bernie Sanders, Dean Robert Ebert, doctor shortage, Featured Post, Healthcare in Rural America, Moral Injury, Nursing Shortages, patient centered care, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, Staffing issues in rural healthcare
August 4, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, The Story Continues If you have read my last two letters, you know that those letters were autobiographical. I have never resisted tossing events from my life into these notes if my personal story illustrated a...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 7, 2023 | A story from my life, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Biases, doctor shortage, DSL initiatives, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Implicit Bias, Nursing Shortages, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Supreme Court and affirmative action, The Supreme Court and student loan forgiveness, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
July 7, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, How Did We Develop Our Workforce Shortages? Last week the Supreme Court finished its session by announcing several controversial decisions. None of them had a direct impact on healthcare, but at least two of...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 11, 2022 | COVID, doctor shortage, Featured Post, Fiona Hill, Global Warming, Joe Biden's coordination of the west's response to Putin's invasion of Ukraine, Nursing Shortages, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, renewed risk for the use of nuclear weapons, Tom Friedman, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare, Zoonosis
March 11, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Our Concerns Multiply “Beware the Ides of March!” was the soothsayer’s warning In Shakespeare’s play, Julius Ceaser. Looking back at 2020 and the explosion of COVID that occurred in mid-March, and becoming...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 10, 2021 | COVID in New Hampshire, COVID uncertainty, Featured Post, Governor Chris Sununu, healthcare disparitiies, Home testing for COVID, Misinformation, Nursing Shortages, Omicron variant, Paul Romer, Personal responses to the challenges of COVID-19, Population Health, Public Health, Social Determinants of Health, The importance of testing in pandemic management, Vaccine hesitancy
December 10, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, COVID Confusion, Worries, and Concerns The last few weeks have felt like a COVID storm here in New Hampshire as we vaulted over Michigan into first place in the nation with the most COVID cases per 100,000...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 28, 2020 | ACA, coronavirus, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Innovation in Healthcare, Nursing Shortages, Staffing issues in rural healthcare, Stock Market, The 2020 elections, VUCA
February 28, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Unexpected Events And Uncertainty in a VUCA World It has happened again. This last week was one where events seemed to suddenly converge on us to remind us of an important reality, change is a constant in...
