by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 29, 2025 | Arlie Russell Hochschild, Cultural Determinants of Health, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Emotional Determinants of Health, Environmental Determinants of Health, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, healthcare under Trump, Illiberalism, MAGA, MAHA, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Project 2025, RFK Jr., Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
August 29, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Recently, I have spent a considerable amount of time and words writing about the illiberal tendencies of our president, and how he appears to be the tool of what I would label as the Project 2025 cabal. Among his many...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 22, 2025 | Article II of the Constitution, Authoritarianism, Conservative Values, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Gilding of the presidency, Healthcare equity, Healthcare Policy, healthcare under Trump, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, political determinants of health, Politics and Healthcare, Progressive Values, Project 2025, Social Determinants of Health, The future of healthcare under Trump, The president's enablers, The Triple Aim, Thomas Edsall, Trump's attempts to expand the presidency
August 22, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, The President’s Exceptional Intrusiveness If you are like me, you may open an online newspaper each morning with some trepidation. You are apprehensive. The central question you are exploring is whether...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 15, 2025 | AMA vs. universal coverage, Burnout, Corporatization of U.S. Healthcare, doctor shortage, Dr. David Blumenthal, Dr. Harvey Cushing, Dr. Robert Ebert, Featured Post, Francis Peabody and "The Care of the Patient", healthcare for the rural and urban poor, income inequality as a threat to healthcare, MAGA, Medicaid, Medicare, Moral Injury, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, political determinants of health, Project 2025, RFK Jr., Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Trump's attack on medical research, Trump's chaos strategy, Universal Access
August 15, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Living in Trump’s Turbulent World In what seems to be an era of ongoing expanding and universal conflict, healthcare—the care of the individual, the collective effort to improve its delivery to everyone, its...
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 1, 2025 | 2026 mid term elections, 2028 elections, Benefits of the ACA, DEI, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, MAGA, Medicaid, Morning in America, narcissism, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Politics and Healthcare, Poverty and healthcare, President Trump, Project 2025, Republican enablers, Social Determinants of Health, Trump induced PTSD, Trump's lies
August 1, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Feeling Kicked To The Curb In the aftermath of the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB), a flood of articles has emerged attempting to forecast the damage to healthcare that will occur, at a minimum, over...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 25, 2025 | aging and mortality, Burnout, Charles Handy, ChatGPT, Featured Post, living a useful life, Moral Injury, Social Determinants of Health, The View from Ninety
July 25, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Mid-Summer Musings On What’s Important We are near the halfway mark of the summer. I am shocked to realize that there are fewer than forty days until Labor Day, which is the practical if not the official end of...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 18, 2025 | America's defective social safety net, America's dependence on foreign medical graduates, Donald Trump, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare in Rural America, MAGA, Medicaid, narcissistic sociopath, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Politics and Healthcare, Republican enablers, SNAP, Social Determinants of Health, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
July 18, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, The Coming Healthcare Crisis in the Aftermath of the One Big Beautiful Bill, and Other Concerns I suspect that it is very likely that long after Donald Trump shuffles off this mortal coil, historians will be debating...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 11, 2025 | Big Beautiful Bill, Burnout, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare in Rural America, Lawrence Summers, Moral Injury, New England Journal of Medicine, no margin no mission, Politics and Healthcare, Sister Irene Kraus, The Corporatization of U.S. Health Care, The future of healthcare under Trump
July 11, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Coming To Grips With A Big Problem My Fourth of July celebration was dimmed a bit by President Trump signing his “One Big Beautiful Bill.” I have learned recently that many of the portions of the bill that will...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 4, 2025 | 4th of July, Big Beautiful Bill, Featured Post, healthcare under Trump, Politics and Healthcare, SNAP, Social Determinants of Health, The Declaration of Independence
July 4, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, 4th of July Musings In Uncertain Times If you read this letter on the 4th, I hope that it finds you sharing a great day with good friends, family, or both. Two hundred and forty-nine years of independence are worth...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 27, 2025 | A personal history, DEI, Dr. Crystal Cené, Dr. Joe Dorsey, Dr. Lee Younger, Dr. Marshall Wolf, Dr. Paul Batalden, Dr. Robert Ebert, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Harvard Community Health Plan, Inequality in Healthcare, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
June 27, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Reflections On A Lifetime Of Practice And The Importance of DEI To Our Health This coming Tuesday will be the fiftieth anniversary of my first day of post-training medical practice. I was quite nervous as I walked...
