by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 5, 2021 | ACO, capitation, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Vanguard Medical, Healthcare as a Right, Inequality in Healthcare, Lean, medical home, Primary Care, Primary Care Challenges, Social Determinants of Health, team based care, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim, Universal Access, Value Based Reimbursement
March 5, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, More Thoughts About The Importance of Primary Care Now that Donald Trump is off Twitter and mostly out of sight except for occasional appearances at places like CPAC, I find that I have more time to think...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 3, 2020 | Angus Deaton and Anne Case, Depression, diseases of despair, Empathy, Inequality, Life Expectancy, Primary Care Challenges, Universal Access
3 January 2020 Dear Interested Readers, What Is Our Role In Addressing The Diseases of Despair? In 2015 we were all shocked to learn from the Nobel prize winning work of Angus Deaton of Princeton University and his wife Anne Case, who is also a...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 15, 2019 | a personal testimony, Dean Robert Ebert, Dr Joel Alpert, Dr. Edward Masters, Dr. Hermann Blumgart, Dr. Marshall Wolf, Featured Post, Francis Peabody and "The Care of the Patient", Population Health, Primary Care Challenges, Professionalism, The Triple Aim
15 November 2019 Dear Interested Readers, More Thoughts on Professionalism and Primary Care I enjoyed writing last Tuesday about healthcare in Hawaii and the Hawaiian expression of our nationwide problems in primary care staffing. When I write my...
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...