by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 19, 2019 | "If--" by Rudyard Kipling, A personal history of social change, Activism in Healthcare, Burnout, Medical Professionalism, The Triple Aim
19 July 2019 Dear Interested Readers, How Are You Doing in the Midst of The Swirl Around You? Are You Keeping Your Head [On]? For a long time now I have been wondering how you are doing. I know that your days are full of challenges that often arise in the most...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 18, 2019 | Balint Groups, Burnout, David Brooks, Featured Post, Joy in Practice, Norman Rockwell's The Doctor and the Doll, professional fulfillment, The Triple Aim
My wife volunteers a half day a week at a thrift shop that is run by our local VNA. The aging crowd in our community donates great items for sale either before or after their demise. Some know that their children don’t value what they once thought were the earmarks of...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 28, 2019 | burnout and professional fulfillment, Colleagues, David Brooks, Healthcare Transformation, hyper individualism, relationalism, Robert Greenleaf, servant leadership, The Second Mountain: The Quest For a Moral Life
One big benefit of being a part of “community” is to be the recipient of the concern of others when something does not go as expected. I know that many faithful readers were scratching their heads wondering what might have happened when by 3:30 last Friday they had...
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 | Aug 17, 2018 | Future of Heathcare, healthcare finance, Lean, Practice Improvement, The Triple Aim
17 August 2018 Dear Interested Readers, The Future Will Be What We Make It Francis Fukuyama, an American philosopher, wrote The End of History and the Last Man in 1992. In his book he argued that there would be no more social evolution beyond liberal democracy and...