by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 23, 2026 | "sick care" in primary care, A personal history, Access to care, Ambulatory practice, chronic disease management, Dr. Cato Baxter Wiseman, Dr. Lisa Rosenbaum, Featured Post, Harvard Community Health Plan, Healthcare Quality, Primary Care Challenges, Social Determinants of Health, the "good" doctor, the burden of quality metrics on PCPs, The Corporatization of U.S. Health Care, The Triple Aim
January 23, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Searching For the Relationships That Provide Professional Fulfillment My mother had many interests and was an “early adopter.” She had a “Tandy Computer” from Radio Shack in the early eighties before moving on to...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 16, 2026 | A personal history, Access to care, Ambar La Forgia, Atrius Health, concierge care, Dartmouth Health, Featured Post, Nicholas Kristof, Optum Health, Politics and Healthcare, Primary Care, private equity purchases in healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Corporatization of U.S. Health Care, The Triple Aim, Urgent Care Clinics
January 16, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Thinking About Today From the Perspective of The Past Throughout my years as a clinician and later as CEO, our practice offered convenient urgent care during regular business hours as well as evenings and...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 2, 2026 | 120th Congress, 2026 midterm elections, ACA, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, healthcare under Trump, MAGA, Politics and Healthcare, Project 2025, Robert Kennedy Jr., Social Determinants of Health
2 January 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Looking Back At ‘25 With Regrets, Looking Forward to ‘26 With Hope Most Sunday mornings, my wife and I record CBS Sunday Morning hosted by veteran TV journalist Jane Pauley. We often don’t listen to it until later...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 26, 2025 | A personal history, abundance, Christmas, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Dr. Lisa Rosenbaum, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Primary Care, The Care Experience, the centrality of Primary Care, the good doctor
December 26, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, What Are The Attributes of A Good Doctor? Many doctors are very good writers. This time of year, I see articles talking about the best books of the last year. Usually, on a list of a dozen or more, I might have...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 12, 2025 | A personal history, ACA market subsidies, ACOs, Continuous Improvement, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Don Berwick, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Lean, Medicare For All, Politics and Healthcare, Professor Zack Cooper
December 12, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, I Am Trying to Develop a Little Hope Now and then, I get an unexpected email response to one of these letters. This week, I got one of those surprises in an email from a longtime reader. He wrote: Have...
