by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 7, 2022 | ACA, Build Back Better, COVID, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Donald Trump's Reluctance to accept the outcome of the election, Ex-President Trump, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare equity, In the Bleak Midwinter, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden, Omicron variant, Politics and Healthcare, Republican efforts to limit voting rights, The 2020 election, The Attack on the Capitol, The Triple Aim
January 7, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Thoughts on COVID, January 6th, And The Future of Healthcare In the Bleak Midwinter If you remember my multiple previous comments about “In the Bleak Midwinter,” a poem by the English poet Christina Rossetti,...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 4, 2021 | Adaptive Change, burnout and professional fulfillment, capitation, Continuous Improvement, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Dr. Robert Pearl, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Healthcare Transformation, physician culture, Physician/Management "Compacts", The Triple Aim, This Is Water by David Foster Wallace, Uncaring:How the Culture of Medicine Kills Doctors & Patients
June 4, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, , Our Culture Is Everybody’s Problem I am sure that you have heard the expression that “culture eats strategy for lunch.” I can’t recall when I first heard the expression, but there is...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 6, 2019 | Gun Violence, Liberal Values, Martin Luther King Jr, Mass shootings as an epidemic, Polarization in America, The Triple Aim
Saturday was another bad day in America. El Paso and Dayton have now joined a long list of towns and school names that are synonymous with gun violence and mass killings. This weekend I read and reread the closing lines of a 2017 New York Times article entitled, “What...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 16, 2018 | Era 3: the moral era, Featured Post, Medical Professionalism, Medical Quality, Population Health, The Quality Chasm, The Triple Aim
This last weekend my wife and I enjoyed the visit of an Interested Reader and his wife. It was a short visit. They arrived late on a rainy Saturday afternoon. They left too early for a walk on Sunday morning. We did have time for a great conversation in front of a...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 12, 2018 | ACA, Future of Heathcare, Health in America, Inequality in Healthcare, Lean, Medicare Reform, The Triple Aim, Universal Access
12 October 2018 Dear Interested Readers, Back to Box 4 In the post earlier this week entitled “You Can’t Get There From Here!” I wrote: The obvious answer to the conundrum of “You can’t get there from here!” is to go to some place from...