by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 8, 2025 | 2026 mid term elections, America's dependence on foreign medical graduates, Burnout, concierge care, CVS, David Brooks, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Dr. Ashish Jha, Dr. Danielle Ofri, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Independent practice of mid-level clinicians, MAGA, Martin Luther King Jr, MassGeneral Brigham, Medicaid, Moral Injury, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Politics and Healthcare, Professor Heather Cox Richardson, Project 2025, Robert Kennedy Jr., Texas attempt to gerrymander for House control, The Voting Rights Act of 1965
August 8, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, We Are Struggling And It Is Likely To Get Worse Before Getting Better This week, there are some significant anniversaries. It has been 80 years since we dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing more...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 18, 2023 | A story from my life, ACA, Dr. Claude Welch, Dr. Lyle Micheli, Fani Willis, Featured Post, Global Warming, Harvard Medical School, Maui Fires, medical education, Moral Injury, Nicholas Kristof, Social Determinants of Health, The sixth extinction, The Voting Rights Act of 1965, Trump's Georgia indictment, Trump's lies
August 18, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, A Continuing Story I am continuing “my story” this week although I am very tempted to discuss “issues.” It has been a week that should make us a little nervous as we begin to realize that we may have miscalculated...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 20, 2023 | Children in poverty, David Brooks, diseases of despair, Economic inequality, Enlightenment Now, Featured Post, Global Warming, Gun Violence as a Public Health Problem, healthcare disparities, Housing shortages as a social determinant of health, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, Lfe expectancy, Manifest Destiny, Martin Luther King Jr, political polarization, Poverty and healthcare, Rutger Bregman and Humankind: A hopeful History, Social Determinants of Health, The Civil Rights Act of 1964, The Second Mountain: The Quest For a Moral Life, The Triple Aim, The Voting Rights Act of 1965, Where Do We Go From Here?
January 20, 2023 Dear interested Readers, It Is a Matter of Perspective Most Monday mornings I am on a Zoom call with seven good friends. We are a “book group.” Over a few years, we have been through several books that discuss philosophical, ethical,...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 13, 2022 | 1968, 2022 midterm elections, Attacks on Roe v. Wade, Black Power, COVID, Economic inequality, Eric Holder, Featured Post, healthcare disparities, Martin Luther King Jr, Poverty, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, Republican efforts to limit voting rights, Social Determinants of Health, The threat to women's reproductive rights, The Voting Rights Act of 1965
May 13, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, How Hope Can Endure In Difficult Times If you were a young African American in the early sixties, you were in the midst of a noble struggle meant to free you from the difficulties and disrespect that your parents and...
