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The Persistent Healthcare Problems of Rural America

by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 12, 2019 | Community Needs Assessments, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare in Rural America, hospital closings in rural America, Population Health Management, Poverty and healthcare, The Triple Aim

In healthcare there is disappointing truth in the old saw, “The more things change, the more they remain the same.” It is paradoxically true that things are changing all the time. I observe that it is often true that in reference to a particular subject or problem...

Healthcare Musings For 8 March 2019

by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 8, 2019 | capitation, Dean Robert Ebert, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, healthcare finance, Medicare For All, The Triple Aim

8 March 2019 Dear Interested Readers, What Medicare-For-All Can’t Fix Let me remind you of Dr. Robert Ebert’s 1965 formula for the future of healthcare in America. He lived for thirty years after this observation and did much to test his own...

A Closer Look At Medicare For All

by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 5, 2019 | Bernie Sanders, Featured Post, Medicare For All

Bernie Sanders is back. At his announcement in Burlington and at a huge rally in Brooklyn last weekend, near the beginning of his speech, he said: We say to the private health insurance companies, whether you like it or not, the United States will join every...

Healthcare Musing For 1 March 2019

by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 1, 2019 | Bernie Sanders, Democratic control of the House, Economic inequality, Empathy, Era 3: the moral era, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Health in America, Medical Professionalism, Michael Cohen's Testimony, My mother's lessons, Presidential Politics

1 March 2019 Dear Interested Readers Learning A New Way Of Being In The World Together This week has been chock-full of important events that fall along the path of our common journey in troubled times. I am not referring to the debate over the...

A Culture of Caring Epitomized In A Picture

by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 26, 2019 | "The Doctor" by Sir Luke Fildes, Donald Guthrie, Featured Post, Guthrie Clinic, Medical Professionalism, the power of stories, The Triple Aim

If the picture in today’s header seems oddly familiar, you are right. It is a precursor image of the famous picture, “The Doctor” that hangs in the Tate Gallery in London and was painted by the imminent nineteenth century British artist, Sir Luke Fildes. ...

Healthcare Musings For 22 February 2019

by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 22, 2019 | Amazon and Jeff Bezos, burnout and professional fulfillment, Era 3: the moral era, Featured Post, Medical Professionalism, The Triple Aim

22 February 2019 Dear Interested Readers Professionalism In Difficult Times It is no longer news that many doctors and nurses, as well as the healthcare professionals who provide the business and operational support for healthcare, are struggling...

Remembering Colleagues and Culture

by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 19, 2019 | Burnout, Colleagues, Culture, Featured Post, Harvard Community Health Plan, The Triple Aim

Every now and then I see an obituary or read an article in a journal that can send me back in time more than forty years in my professional life and up to seventy years in the totality of life. There is a big “scrapbook” in my brain where I log a lot of “screen time.”...

Healthcare Musings For 15 February 2019

by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 15, 2019 | Costs, Edison and Ford, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Leadership, Lean

15 February 2019 Dear Interested Readers, A Brief Note From Vacation About Lessons From Edison and Ford We have been traveling around Florida for the past week and a half, and I am on vacation time. I like traveling with a fluid agenda. A flexible...

Kudos To Atrius Health For Staying On Track

by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 12, 2019 | ACA, ACO, Atrius Health, Featured Post, Massachusetts Blue Cross, PPO contracts, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim

I like trains. Perhaps it is because my maternal grandfather worked all of his life for the Seaboard Railroad. Some of my earliest memories are of going down to the train station with him when we would visit the little town in North Carolina where I have had family...

Healthcare Musings For 8 February 2019

by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 8, 2019 | Future of Heathcare, Health and Healthcare, Healthcare Transformation, Improving Ambulatory Practice, Medicare For All, Public Option, the difficulties of change, Universal Access

8 February 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Imagine That! Last Sunday the Associate Minister at my church delivered a wonderfully crafted sermon entitled “Imagine.” She was not asking us to daydream about what might happen that evening in Atlanta as the...