by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 15, 2020 | Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Dialog Across the Divide, Don Berwick, Economic inequality, Era 3: the moral era, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Hands Across the Hills, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality in Healthcare, Polarization in America, Social Determinants of Health, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim
I don’t really remember when I first met Don Berwick. He joined Harvard Community Health Plan in the late seventies as a pediatrician. I began my career there a few years earlier in 1975 right out of my training at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital before it...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 27, 2020 | A Promised Land By Barack Obama, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Black Lives Matter, burnout and professional fulfillment, Crossing the Quality Chasm, David Brooks, Dean Robert Ebert, diseases of despair, Don Berwick, Empathy, Featured Post, Francis Peabody and "The Care of the Patient", healthcare for the rural and urban poor, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden and the Future, Polarization in America, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Six Domains of Quality, the plight of "red state" rural Americans, The Triple Aim
November 27, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Where Do We Begin The Work? During this last week I have been listening to Barack Obama read his book, A Promise Land, on my afternoon walks. It has been an incredible experience. I am delighted that the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 24, 2020 | ACA, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Build Back Better, Don Berwick, Donald Trump's Reluctance to accept the outcome of the election, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Polarization in America, The 2020 election, The Public Option
This time three weeks ago many Americans were wearing masks while standing in lines with six feet of distance on either side from others in line while waiting patiently to cast their vote. Some stood for hours in lines designed to discourage them from...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 12, 2020 | A Brief History of the Last One Hundred Years Of Healthcare, Covid-19, Don Berwick, Featured Post, Health in America, Healthcare Quality, Healthcare Transformation, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality in Healthcare, Lean, Pandemic Management, Social Determinants of Health, The World After COVID-19
As we move into an attempt to recover from the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us have begun to think about how the delivery of healthcare will be changed by what we have experienced. Some have suggested that the pandemic has revealed serious flaws...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 24, 2020 | coronavirus, Don Berwick, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Featured Post, Innovation in Healthcare, Population Health, Social Determinants of Health
Yesterday, I scored two rolls of toilet paper at the one grocery store in my town. I felt good about my accomplishment until I got home and thought about what it meant to find joy in toilet paper. I had volunteered to do the shopping, and my wife’s last request...
