by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 20, 2022 | Attacks on Roe v. Wade, Authoritarianism, COVID, Critical Race Theory, Don Berwick, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Global Warming, Gun Violence, healthcare disparities, Healthcare equity, Illiberalism, Inequality in Healthcare, Liberal Values, Making America Great Again, Martin Luther King Jr, Mass Shooting in Buffalo, Polarization in America, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, Replacement Theory
May 20, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, IIliberalism And The Future Of Healthcare It is easy to get lost in the despair of the moment. My newspapers and TV commentators tell me more than I want to know about mass shootings in Buffalo and Southern...
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...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 6, 2022 | Attacks on Roe v. Wade, Biden's American Families Plan, Brett Kavanaugh, Children in poverty, Consequences of repealing Roe v. Wade, COVID, Economic inequality, healthcare disparities, January 6 attack on the Capitol, Jill Lepore, Justice Barrett, Justice Gorsuch, Martin Luther King Jr, Merrick Garland, Poverty and healthcare, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, Sister Joan Chittister, Social Determinants of Health, The impact of a conservative majority on the Supreme Court
May 6, 2022 Dear interested Readers, Surprised and Disappointed Again in Strange Times It’s been another tough week in Ukraine, especially in Mariupol, and not so pleasant here. It has been a week with at least one huge surprise. I can remember halcyon...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 29, 2022 | Crossing the Quality Chasm, Enlightenment Now, Evidence Based Medicine, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare equity, Inequality in Healthcare, Liberal Values, modernism, political polarization, postmodernism, Progressive Values, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, The Triple Aim, VUCA
April 29, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Is Healthcare Enlightened Now or Suffering From Postmodern Cynicism and Burnout? About five years ago, I was delighted to get the good news from Stephen Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard, that the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 22, 2022 | A story from my life, American exceptionalism, Azovstal steel factory, Bret Stephens, Conservative Values, Contoocook Carry Community Fund, COVID, Dartmouth Hitchcock Health, Featured Post, Improving the health of the poor, Inequality in Healthcare, Kearsage Regional Ecumenical Ministries, Marine LePen, Mariupol, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, Remember the Alamo, rural healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
April 22, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Remember the Alamo! Remember Azvostal! Remember The Triple Aim! I became an enthusiastic student of history in the seventh grade. By the eighth grade, I received the DAR medal for being the best student in American...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 15, 2022 | ACA, COVID, disinformation, Employer Provided Health Insurance, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Health in America, Healthcare equity, Omicron variant, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, pysanky, Richard Rohr, The Triple Aim, Volodymyr Yermolenko.
April 15, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Easter In Ukraine and Loosely Connected Musings About “Disorder” and “Reorder” in Healthcare As is true for many others, the continuing war in Ukraine has stimulated my fascination with the bravery and willingness...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 8, 2022 | ACA, Build Back Better, Choosing Wisely, COVID, Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal, Dr. Elizabeth Rourke, Emerging from the pandemic, Featured Post, Joe Manchin, Low Value Care, Medicaid post COVID, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, Tom Friedman
April 8, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, What We Don’t Recognize or Refuse to Manage Plus What We Did Not Learn or Have Conveniently Forgotten May Be Our Undoing Flummoxed: flum·moxed /ˈfləməkst/ adjective adjective: flummoxed bewildered or perplexed.:...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 1, 2022 | April Fool's Day, Atul Gawande, Bret Stephens, chronic disease management, Consolidation in healthcare, Costs, COVID, doctor shortage, Featured Post, Inequality in Healthcare, Inflation, Innovation, Joe Biden's coordination of the west's response to Putin's invasion of Ukraine, patient centered care, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, The Care Experience, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
April 1, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Are We All April’s Fools? I made an interesting discovery on the Internet. According to Wikipedia, Odessa, the resort city of Ukraine on the Black Sea, is the only city in the world where April 1 is an official...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 25, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, ACA, Community Health Workers., Crossing the Quality Chasm, Emerging from the pandemic, Equity, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Global Warming, Healthcare equity, Improving the health of the poor, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, Polarization in America, Politics and Healthcare, Poverty and healthcare, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, Six Domains of Quality, Social Determinants of Health, The Supreme Court and Healthcare, The Triple Aim, Value Based Reimbursement
March 25, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, To Live in Challenging Times My goal for this week’s letter was to shift back to writing more directly about healthcare. Despite my plans, I found it hard to completely ignore the Senate hearings on the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 18, 2022 | autocrats, COVID, Dana Milbank, Donald Trump's admiration of Putin, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Governor Ron DeSantis, Health in America, Healthcare Transformation, Illiberalism, Inequality, Marina Ovsyannikova, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, Six Domains of Quality, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
March 18, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Trying To Make Some Sense Of A Continuing Senseless Tragedy There was a brief moment in time almost sixty years ago when I considered changing my college major from chemistry/pre-med to English. I was completely...
