by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 7, 2025 | "atomization" of primary care, Access, concierge care, Democratic victories in 2025 elections, Dr. Lisa Rosenbaum, Featured Post, Financial challenges of primary care., Future of Heathcare, Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Politics and Healthcare, Primary Care Challenges, SNAP, Social Determinants of Health, The Corporatization of U.S. Health Care, The Government Shutdown, Trump's narcissism
November 7, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Politics, Primary Care, and the Social Determinants of Health Tuesday’s elections brought a little bit of relief for those of us who have suffered a sense of loss every day since President Trump’s second...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 31, 2025 | A personal history, AI in healthcare, ChatGPT, dental health, Dr. Eric Topol, Dr. Lisa Rosenbaum, Dr. Steven Lin, Epic, Featured Post, food banks, food Insecurity, Innovation in Healthcare, Medicaid, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Primary Care, SNAP, Threatened support to the ACA marketplace
31 October 2025 Dear Interested Readers, A Potpourri: SNAP, Dental Health, and AI In Primary Care My original intent this week was to write about the disaster that many of my neighbors and millions of Americans are experiencing with the cessation of SNAP...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 24, 2025 | 2026 midterm elections, A personal history, Corporatization of U.S. Healthcare, DEI, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Featured Post, Government Shutdown, Henry Olsen, MAGA, No Kings protest, non profit healthcare institutions, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Politics and Healthcare, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Senator Josh Hawley, Senator Rand Paul, Sister Irene Kraus, Social Determinants of Health, Speaker Mike Johnson, Stephen Lipstein, The Triple Aim, Threatened support to the ACA marketplace
October 24, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Sharing A Little Common Ground With Some on the Right, and a Few Positive Aspects of the Corporatization of Healthcare, As We Endure the “Shutdown.” In several editions of this weekly letter during...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 17, 2025 | A personal history, AI in healthcare, Burnout, Clay Christensen, Computers In Healthcare, Disruptive Innovation, Dr. Octo Barnett, Epic, Featured Post, Harvard Community Health Plan, Healthcare equity, Mass General Brigham, No Kings protest, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Practice Improvement, Primary Care, The Triple Aim, workforce issues
October 17, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Is AI the Answer? I wonder if I attend more Zoom meetings than the average eighty-year-old. There are usually at least two and sometimes more Zoom meetings a week on my schedule. My Zoom meetings save me a lot of...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 10, 2025 | A story from my life, ACA, Atrius Health, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Government Shutdown, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, MAGA, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, political determinants of health, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, Structural Determinants of Health, The future of healthcare under Trump, The Triple Aim, Threatened support to the ACA marketplace, Trump's plan for Gaza, Where Do We Go From Here?
10 October 2025 Dear Interested Readers, The Shutdown Is An Exercise in the Political Determinants of Health In this week’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, a poignant essay can be found at the end of the “Perspectives” section. It was...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 3, 2025 | ACA, America's defective social safety net, Article II of the Constitution, Authoritarianism, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Global Warming, Government Shutdown, Kleptocracy, MAGA, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Paul Krugman, Political "norms", Politics and Healthcare, signs and symptoms of a failing democracy, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
October 3, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Slipsliding Away: Healthcare’s Impending Decline in a “Failing Democracy” I imagine that many of my readers are tired of my comments about politics and the threat that President Trump poses to continuous...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 26, 2025 | Autism Spectrum Disorder, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Neurodiversity, Quackery, RFK Jr., Tylenol and Pregnancy, Vaccine hesitancy
September 26, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, “Dr.” Trump Is a Quack What do the following individuals have in common? Sir Anthony Hopkins – Actor Dan Aykroyd – Comedic actor Susan Boyle – Singer Tim Burton – Movie director Alexis...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 19, 2025 | Activism in Healthcare, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Continuous Improvement, David Brooks, Enlightenment, Featured Post, MAGA, MAHA, Polarization in America, Robert Kennedy Jr., Russell Shorto, The Era of Dark Passions, The Island at the Center of the World
September 19, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, The Confusion In Make America Healthy Again I have read a few pundits who have pointed out that President Trump understands our problems, but he is offering the wrong solutions. I doubt that turning our backs...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 12, 2025 | Charlie Kirk, Counterfactuals, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Political violence in America, Politics and Healthcare, Remembering 9/11, Social Determinants of Health, The 2024 Presidential Election
September 12, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Much of this letter, which begins in remembrance of 9/11, including comments about previous assassinations in our nation’s history, was written before the tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk, the very effective and...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 5, 2025 | a personal testimony, amyloidosis, Burnout, Corporatization of U.S. Healthcare, DEI, Featured Post, Gun violence as the number one cause of pediatric deaths, healthcare under Trump, Make America Healthy Again, Moral Injury, out of pocket healthcare costs, Politics and Healthcare, RFK Jr., Senator Bill Cassidy, Senator John Barrasso, Skepticism about the COVID-19 Vaccine, Trump's attack on medical research
September 5, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Trump Chaos Puts Clouds on the Future of Healthcare in America The disturbing circus at the Senate Finance committee hearing yesterday featured verbal conflict between the Secretary of Health and Human Services,...
