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. ...
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...
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.”...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 5, 2019 | ambulatory care-sensitive conditions (ACSCs), capitation, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Hill-Burton, Hospital Utilization
The hospital in my little town was one hundred years old this last year. It was launched by three local physicians, Dr. Nathan Griffin, Dr. Charles Lamson and Dr. Anna Littlefield, in collaboration with women in the community. A local woman of some prominence, Jane...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 4, 2019 | Democratic control of the House, Martin Luther King Jr, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
4 January 2019 Dear Interested Readers, We Must Address Poverty and the Social Determinants of Health I have the opinion that most Americans do not understand or spend much time thinking about the term “social determinants of health”, or connect...