by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 21, 2019 | Economic inequality, Era 3: the moral era, Featured Post, Healthcare Transformation, Inequality, Population Health, Poverty, Sister Joan Chittister, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
21 June 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Critical Choices and Uncommon Courage I have a new “hero,” guru, and role model. She is Sister Joan Chittister, an 83 year old Benedictine nun. Her latest book, The Time Is Now: A Call to Uncommon Courage has...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 4, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, Economic inequality, Healthcare as a Right, Justice Democrats, Medicare For All, New Consensus, Rihanna Gunn Wright, The Green New Deal
Sometimes it feels to me like there are too many balls in the air. Back when I was practicing medicine, a time that is quickly fading from view as I try to use the rearview mirror of memory, I would categorize my colleagues by the way they approached problems as...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 14, 2019 | Dean Robert Ebert, Economic inequality, healthcare for the rural and urban poor, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health
If you are a close reader of these notes, you’ve probably figured out that my career was as a physician first and then secondarily as a healthcare administrator who was fascinated by the many facets of healthcare management and policy. Put into the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 7, 2019 | Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Health in America, Opioid Epidemic, Population Health, Social Determinants of Health, The Homeless
I took the picture that heads up this post on a walk this week in Albuquerque. I was there to visit my son and his wife. They moved to Albuquerque in 2007. For my daughter-in-law it was a return to her hometown. Both of her parents had been teachers in the Albuquerque...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 16, 2019 | ACA, Community Action Agencies, Economic inequality, Entitlements, Poverty and healthcare, The Triple Aim
In last Friday’s Healthcare Musings letter I spent some time reviewing a recent David Brooks’ column entitled “Winning the War on Poverty: The Canadians are doing it; we’re not. I was drawn to his analysis because I have become very involved in efforts to address...